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 Armenia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
David Bowie,
Supertramp,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fluxion,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Section 25,
Eli Mardock,
Rod Modell,
Brothers Johnson,
Guru Guru,
The Invisible,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Spoonie Gee,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tim Buckley,
Moby Grape,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Blackbyrds,
The Fall,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Barracudas,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Association,
Theoretical Girls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Michelle Simonal,
Desert Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Gun Club,
Glambeats Corp.,
Animal Collective,
DNA,
Royal Trux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
Bobby Womack,
Lyres,
Monks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Janne Schatter,
Sister Nancy,
The Saints,
Siglo XX,
Black Flag,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delta 5,
Tears for Fears,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sex Pistols,
FM Einheit,
World's Most,
Easy Going,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.