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 Panama and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Brick to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
Essential Logic,
Cybotron,
Los Fastidios,
Kool Moe Dee,
Quando Quango,
Freddie Wadling,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Slick Rick,
Bobby Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Nirvana,
One Last Wish,
FM Einheit,
Clear Light,
kango's stein massive,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chrome,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Shoche,
Moss Icon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lebanon Hanover,
Q65,
Max Romeo,
The Move,
Eric Dolphy,
Ohio Players,
Section 25,
Rakim,
Dead Boys,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Unrelated Segments,
The Durutti Column,
Graham Central Station,
Organ,
The Gories,
the Soft Cell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalo Schifrin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
H. Thieme,
The Fall,
Lucky Dragons,
Bootsy Collins,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fort Wilson Riot,
June of 44,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.