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 Chad and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nas,
Charles Mingus,
Carl Craig,
Easy Going,
Ronan,
Inner City,
Gil Scott Heron,
Organ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cheater Slicks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Harmonia,
Zapp,
Darondo,
Chris Corsano,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang of Four,
Index,
Sound Behaviour,
Yazoo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Altered Images,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Slits,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
A Certain Ratio,
Barrington Levy,
R.M.O.,
Swell Maps,
Blossom Toes,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mission of Burma,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quando Quango,
The Fall,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Erykah Badu,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
La Düsseldorf,
The Cure,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Trojans,
Bill Near,
The Associates,
the Germs,
The Young Rascals,
Dead Boys,
Public Enemy,
Yellowson,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.