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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Deepchord,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rites of Spring,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kaleidoscope,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unwound,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Monks,
Warren Ellis,
the Germs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Skarface,
The Remains,
Chris & Cosey,
Derrick Morgan,
Spandau Ballet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gang Starr,
World's Most,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fatback Band,
The Gun Club,
Animal Collective,
Wolf Eyes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Roy Ayers,
ABC,
Con Funk Shun,
Ronan,
Oblivians,
Theoretical Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magazine,
Nas,
The Monochrome Set,
Lebanon Hanover,
Blake Baxter,
Wire,
Junior Murvin,
Bob Dylan,
Max Romeo,
Funky Four + One,
Model 500,
Masters at Work,
Amon Düül II,
Man Parrish,
Sun Ra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sugar Minott,
The Evens,
Wasted Youth,
Goldenarms,
Terry Callier,
Pole,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick May,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.