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 Micronesia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 Avey Tare to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Barclay James Harvest,
La Düsseldorf,
Jerry's Kids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
James White and The Blacks,
Khruangbin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pantytec,
Q and Not U,
Archie Shepp,
Scientists,
The Beau Brummels,
Nation of Ulysses,
Junior Murvin,
The Human League,
Ice-T,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
This Heat,
Patti Smith,
Bluetip,
Flipper,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gories,
Skriet,
Swans,
Pole,
Masters at Work,
The Neon Judgement,
Grauzone,
Robert Wyatt,
Oblivians,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Delon & Dalcan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nirvana,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sly & The Family Stone,
ABC,
Soft Cell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul II Soul,
Pylon,
The Red Krayola,
Mr. Review,
Minny Pops,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
Marmalade,
E-Dancer,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Cluster,
Donny Hathaway,
New York Dolls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stockholm Monsters,
Todd Terry,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.