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 Kyrgyzstan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Andrew Hill to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dead C record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
Pierre Henry,
Maleditus Sound,
Gang of Four,
Au Pairs,
Peter and Kerry,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deakin,
Lungfish,
Ten City,
The Last Poets,
The Doors,
Tommy Roe,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Masters at Work,
Idris Muhammad,
Pylon,
The Invisible,
Al Stewart,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television Personalities,
Sun City Girls,
Rapeman,
Faraquet,
Crash Course in Science,
La Düsseldorf,
The Residents,
Duran Duran,
Funky Four + One,
Avey Tare,
Scott Walker,
Donny Hathaway,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Teasers,
The Dead C,
The Gladiators,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Leaves,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Byron Stingily,
Half Japanese,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Toasters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
R.M.O.,
Fad Gadget,
cv313,
Lou Reed,
LL Cool J,
Flash Fearless,
Reagan Youth,
Albert Ayler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cecil Taylor,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.