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 Austria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gichy Dan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin 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 funk 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Television Personalities,
The Move,
Fatback Band,
Crooked Eye,
Ossler,
Accadde A,
Nils Olav,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dorothy Ashby,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Byron Stingily,
Tim Buckley,
Sister Nancy,
The Dirtbombs,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Fania All-Stars,
Skriet,
Cameo,
Kayak,
Alison Limerick,
Niagra,
Glenn Branca,
The Cure,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
R.M.O.,
Eve St. Jones,
Jeff Mills,
Jacques Brel,
Lou Christie,
Das Ding,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Kinks,
The Smoke,
Mantronix,
The Index,
New York Dolls,
Pole,
Whodini,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Moon,
Surgeon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Quando Quango,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Busters,
Howard Jones,
Desert Stars,
Kas Product,
Slick Rick,
Rotary Connection,
Dawn Penn,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter and Kerry,
Lee Hazlewood,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.