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 Latvia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tomorrow to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Star Department. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
JFA,
K-Klass,
Wally Richardson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
DJ Sneak,
World's Most,
The Cramps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cybotron,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gang Starr,
Alice Coltrane,
Amazonics,
The Smiths,
Gang Green,
Bluetip,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joy Division,
Franke,
Drexciya,
the Normal,
Carl Craig,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nick Fraelich,
Rosa Yemen,
ABBA,
Lebanon Hanover,
Circle Jerks,
Boz Scaggs,
Nirvana,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deepchord,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Bang On A Can,
The Motions,
Bobby Womack,
John Cale,
Rod Modell,
The Names,
Blossom Toes,
Magma,
Theoretical Girls,
The Doors,
Gichy Dan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pere Ubu,
Fugazi,
Leonard Cohen,
Fela Kuti,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy Collins,
Rapeman,
Pulsallama,
Erykah Badu,
Jacob Miller,
Morten Harket,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.