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 Afghanistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Gap Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Laurel Aitken record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Move,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Prince Buster,
Bob Dylan,
Davy DMX,
Stockholm Monsters,
Funky Four + One,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ronnie Foster,
Bluetip,
Silicon Teens,
Anthony Braxton,
Minnie Riperton,
Heaven 17,
Junior Murvin,
Eric B and Rakim,
Matthew Bourne,
Max Romeo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Marmalade,
The Moleskins,
The Pretty Things,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deadbeat,
X-101,
Wolf Eyes,
Radiohead,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerri Chandler,
Godley & Creme,
Bootsy Collins,
DJ Style,
Gil Scott Heron,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Finger,
Eric Copeland,
Soul II Soul,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Danielle Patucci,
Marine Girls,
Country Teasers,
The Blackbyrds,
China Crisis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Boogie Down Productions,
Neil Young,
Dennis Brown,
Icehouse,
Man Eating Sloth,
Black Flag,
Niagra,
Television,
Negative Approach,
Marvin Gaye,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.