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 Panama and from Tokyo.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 The Skatalites to the techno 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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Michelle Simonal,
Matthew Bourne,
Average White Band,
Goldenarms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Saccharine Trust,
The Move,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Standells,
Deepchord,
Sparks,
Patti Smith,
Funky Four + One,
Panda Bear,
Harmonia,
10cc,
The Motions,
Visage,
Technova,
Heaven 17,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Warsaw,
Dark Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cecil Taylor,
Erasure,
Sex Pistols,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
The Cowsills,
Thompson Twins,
the Soft Cell,
Al Stewart,
Todd Rundgren,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Parry Music,
Lee Hazlewood,
Brick,
Sixth Finger,
the Association,
Magazine,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gichy Dan,
Khruangbin,
Deadbeat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Unrelated Segments,
K-Klass,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Real Kids,
Interpol,
EPMD,
Derrick May,
Derrick Morgan,
Nico,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.