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 Palau and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Spokane.
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 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Con Funk Shun to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy 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?
Moby Grape,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
The Fortunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Hashim,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Evens,
Motorama,
Prince Buster,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arcadia,
Mars,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed,
June Days,
Scratch Acid,
Iggy Pop,
The Mummies,
Harmonia,
Sandy B,
The Names,
The Selecter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Sound,
Joy Division,
the Sonics,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Dirtbombs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Index,
Marmalade,
Minnie Riperton,
Albert Ayler,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cowsills,
Procol Harum,
Slave,
Sparks,
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aaron Thompson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
Moebius,
The Gap Band,
Joe Finger,
Blake Baxter,
the Soft Cell,
a-ha,
John Lydon,
Bluetip,
R.M.O.,
Talk Talk,
Maurizio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.