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 Madagascar and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 theremin 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 Cluster to the techno 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Unwound 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
The Residents,
Los Fastidios,
The Fire Engines,
The Last Poets,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
The Misunderstood,
Sun City Girls,
In Retrospect,
Easy Going,
The Barracudas,
Loose Ends,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fear,
Clear Light,
Flipper,
Johnny Clarke,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Donny Hathaway,
The Walker Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Pantytec,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ralphi Rosario,
Derrick May,
Eurythmics,
The Durutti Column,
Marmalade,
Grey Daturas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Unrelated Segments,
Archie Shepp,
Half Japanese,
Quantec,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Remains,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siglo XX,
Rakim,
The Young Rascals,
Brass Construction,
Interpol,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cowsills,
The Gories,
The Music Machine,
The Grass Roots,
Ultravox,
Intrusion,
Von Mondo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Oneida,
The Move,
Chris Corsano,
Sixth Finger,
Sound Behaviour,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Arcadia,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.