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 Macedonia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 UT to the grime 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 Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dawn Penn,
Con Funk Shun,
Pere Ubu,
Tomorrow,
Patti Smith,
Lalann,
Public Enemy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bush Tetras,
Young Marble Giants,
Lindisfarne,
The Residents,
Bauhaus,
Mad Mike,
Erykah Badu,
The Golliwogs,
Marvin Gaye,
Letta Mbulu,
Delta 5,
The Toasters,
The Young Rascals,
The Evens,
the Sonics,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Make Up,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gastr Del Sol,
Delon & Dalcan,
Schoolly D,
Negative Approach,
Jacob Miller,
Nick Fraelich,
Cameo,
Ten City,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Radio Birdman,
Interpol,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gabor Szabo,
Juan Atkins,
Hasil Adkins,
Sparks,
Subhumans,
The New Christs,
The Pop Group,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
The Cure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Robert Wyatt,
Boredoms,
Country Teasers,
Von Mondo,
The Birthday Party,
CMW,
Scrapy,
Scan 7,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.