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 South Sudan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Idris Muhammad to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Kas Product,
Lalann,
Trumans Water,
Negative Approach,
Tom Boy,
F. McDonald,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Duran Duran,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bill Wells,
Supertramp,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Joensuu 1685,
Flipper,
The Remains,
The Cowsills,
Inner City,
The Electric Prunes,
Porter Ricks,
Bobby Womack,
Half Japanese,
Schoolly D,
Bush Tetras,
The Evens,
Quando Quango,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funky Four + One,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Guru Guru,
Outsiders,
Fat Boys,
Kayak,
Accadde A,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Graham Central Station,
Swell Maps,
Dennis Brown,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skaos,
the Bar-Kays,
Tubeway Army,
Gichy Dan,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Görl,
Lyres,
The Dead C,
E-Dancer,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Move,
Johnny Osbourne,
Archie Shepp,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Amon Düül,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.