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 Belarus and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bob Dylan to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barrington Levy,
Jerry's Kids,
Talk Talk,
The Happenings,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boredoms,
Sun City Girls,
The Residents,
Dual Sessions,
Jawbox,
John Coltrane,
10cc,
The Seeds,
CMW,
Guru Guru,
Girls At Our Best!,
Moss Icon,
Ituana,
Subhumans,
Mark Hollis,
Rakim,
Letta Mbulu,
Sun Ra,
Funky Four + One,
Eddi Front,
Symarip,
The Stooges,
The Martian,
The Gun Club,
David Bowie,
Section 25,
Brick,
Underground Resistance,
Joyce Sims,
Lakeside,
Q and Not U,
OOIOO,
Nik Kershaw,
Wally Richardson,
Blossom Toes,
The Fortunes,
Inner City,
Stereo Dub,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
F. McDonald,
Fat Boys,
The Pretty Things,
Eli Mardock,
Second Layer,
Minnie Riperton,
One Last Wish,
Hardrive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soulsonic Force,
The Slackers,
Altered Images,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.