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 Sri Lanka and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lou Christie to the techno 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
EPMD,
Magazine,
Man Eating Sloth,
Avey Tare,
The Cowsills,
Oneida,
Moss Icon,
Groovy Waters,
Average White Band,
Severed Heads,
Letta Mbulu,
Tears for Fears,
Mary Jane Girls,
Slave,
Mission of Burma,
The Last Poets,
The Electric Prunes,
Depeche Mode,
Icehouse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soul II Soul,
Lucky Dragons,
Blake Baxter,
The Skatalites,
The Index,
Matthew Bourne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tropical Tobacco,
Peter and Kerry,
The Beau Brummels,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake,
The Grass Roots,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brass Construction,
Public Enemy,
David Bowie,
Lindisfarne,
Charles Mingus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scientists,
David Axelrod,
Das Ding,
The Shadows of Knight,
Reuben Wilson,
Morten Harket,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Alphaville,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Stiv Bators,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Associates,
Jandek,
Heaven 17,
New Age Steppers,
Max Romeo,
Cymande,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.