Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Lithuania and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Index to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
The Monks,
Moss Icon,
Yusef Lateef,
Moebius,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Monochrome Set,
Pere Ubu,
Curtis Mayfield,
Harpers Bizarre,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Moleskins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lindisfarne,
Scan 7,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nick Fraelich,
Roger Hodgson,
Barrington Levy,
Jerry's Kids,
R.M.O.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Delta 5,
Radiohead,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rod Modell,
The Move,
Robert Wyatt,
Amon Düül II,
Toni Rubio,
Outsiders,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rakim,
Accadde A,
Gang Green,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rekid,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Faraquet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minnie Riperton,
Alton Ellis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Steve Hackett,
The Pretty Things,
Infiniti,
Monks,
Main Source,
Bobby Sherman,
Donald Byrd,
Danielle Patucci,
The Busters,
Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail, Ponytail.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.