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 Brunei and from Sao Paulo.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Essential Logic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Steve Hackett,
Joey Negro,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aaron Thompson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cybotron,
The Misunderstood,
Mantronix,
Soul II Soul,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drexciya,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Monks,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DNA,
Moebius,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Faraquet,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Music Machine,
The Trojans,
Jeff Lynne,
Infiniti,
X-102,
AZ,
Ronan,
Bang On A Can,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camberwell Now,
Quando Quango,
48th St. Collective,
Newcleus,
Peter & Gordon,
Barbara Tucker,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Metal Thangz,
Boredoms,
Sixth Finger,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Quantec,
The Blackbyrds,
Deepchord,
The Young Rascals,
Anthony Braxton,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Holt,
Thee Headcoats,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shoche,
Swell Maps,
Oneida,
the Swans,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neil Young,
La Düsseldorf,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.