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 Israel and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sällskapet to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Archie Shepp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camberwell Now,
Juan Atkins,
Scan 7,
Lalo Schifrin,
Funkadelic,
Nik Kershaw,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nas,
Little Man,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Supertramp,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Arab on Radar,
Scion,
Khruangbin,
Eve St. Jones,
ABC,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gong,
Derrick May,
Anthony Braxton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
Echospace,
Colin Newman,
Groovy Waters,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grauzone,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
T. Rex,
Tubeway Army,
Grandmaster Flash,
Nirvana,
The Leaves,
Suburban Knight,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Modern Lovers,
Rites of Spring,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Schoolly D,
The Durutti Column,
Massinfluence,
Arthur Verocai,
Hot Snakes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Human League,
Quantec,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Doors,
Rapeman,
Boogie Down Productions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.