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 India and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Minnie Riperton to the jazz 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Gichy Dan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Wings,
Drexciya,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacob Miller,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crime,
Swell Maps,
The Golliwogs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mad Mike,
Prince Buster,
Jeru the Damaja,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
Donny Hathaway,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eli Mardock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
FM Einheit,
Stetsasonic,
Marine Girls,
Eric Copeland,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Theoretical Girls,
Rapeman,
Joy Division,
Bob Dylan,
the Fania All-Stars,
John Cale,
Dark Day,
New Age Steppers,
Oblivians,
Don Cherry,
Pantytec,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
Lower 48,
The Music Machine,
Marmalade,
Loose Ends,
Echospace,
Quantec,
Skarface,
Derrick May,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter & Gordon,
Altered Images,
The Birthday Party,
Au Pairs,
Rosa Yemen,
Iggy Pop,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Smog,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.