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 Angola and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Dual Sessions to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Joensuu 1685,
Interpol,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-101,
CMW,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Make Up,
Darondo,
Electric Prunes,
Yaz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Lydon,
Jerry's Kids,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Letta Mbulu,
Charles Mingus,
cv313,
Crispian St. Peters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cameo,
Brick,
Animal Collective,
Surgeon,
Agitation Free,
ABC,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Count Five,
Youth Brigade,
Rekid,
Chris & Cosey,
The Tremeloes,
Bobby Womack,
Ultra Naté,
Section 25,
Main Source,
Aloha Tigers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cal Tjader,
Ponytail,
Jeff Lynne,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Last Poets,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Dual Sessions,
The Associates,
Swans,
Sam Rivers,
Desert Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Faust,
Camberwell Now,
The Kinks,
Connie Case,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Echospace,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.