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 Fiji and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 theremin 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 Nas to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Be Bop Deluxe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Johnny Osbourne,
James White and The Blacks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sister Nancy,
Archie Shepp,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shuggie Otis,
The American Breed,
Bill Near,
Crooked Eye,
Mad Mike,
Easy Going,
Main Source,
Quando Quango,
Cecil Taylor,
Lakeside,
Rotary Connection,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sixth Finger,
Symarip,
Grey Daturas,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
Amazonics,
Public Image Ltd.,
Thompson Twins,
Procol Harum,
Mark Hollis,
The Mummies,
Nico,
Faraquet,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Bar-Kays,
Tubeway Army,
Lebanon Hanover,
Warren Ellis,
Theoretical Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
Pagans,
Marshall Jefferson,
Graham Central Station,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jesper Dahlback,
Circle Jerks,
Eden Ahbez,
The Five Americans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Womack,
Subhumans,
Wire,
Bang On A Can,
Derrick Morgan,
Godley & Creme,
Skriet,
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.