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 Nicaragua and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 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 Golliwogs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Traffic Nightmare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
Unrelated Segments,
The Beau Brummels,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
EPMD,
Sandy B,
Siglo XX,
The Cramps,
K-Klass,
Ken Boothe,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Sam Rivers,
The Fuzztones,
Index,
Deadbeat,
Dark Day,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Skatalites,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marvin Gaye,
Neil Young,
The Moody Blues,
Robert Wyatt,
Das Ding,
Warren Ellis,
Thompson Twins,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bobby Sherman,
Q65,
Groovy Waters,
Delta 5,
Sun City Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Idris Muhammad,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gang Starr,
Desert Stars,
Henry Cow,
Urselle,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Severed Heads,
Metal Thangz,
Bronski Beat,
Quadrant,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Near,
Duran Duran,
the Sonics,
Easy Going,
Brothers Johnson,
Yusef Lateef,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blossom Toes,
Anthony Braxton,
Khruangbin,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.