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 Kiribati and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marvin Gaye,
Be Bop Deluxe,
June Days,
Eddi Front,
The Pop Group,
Sällskapet,
Brick,
Trumans Water,
Rekid,
Eric B and Rakim,
Wasted Youth,
The Happenings,
The Toasters,
Robert Görl,
Aswad,
John Coltrane,
Magazine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Red Krayola,
The Grass Roots,
Tears for Fears,
Eurythmics,
Tomorrow,
Al Stewart,
Grey Daturas,
Dark Day,
The Gories,
Skaos,
Neil Young,
Yazoo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Names,
Arthur Verocai,
Deakin,
The Sonics,
Q65,
The Blues Magoos,
Funkadelic,
MDC,
Essential Logic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Pus,
Pussy Galore,
The Gap Band,
Quantec,
Fatback Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rakim,
Babytalk,
Dual Sessions,
Deadbeat,
Alton Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ornette Coleman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Standells,
Kas Product,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kerri Chandler,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.