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 Croatia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sun Ra to the electroclash 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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Graham Central Station,
Patti Smith,
Faraquet,
The Electric Prunes,
The Invisible,
Second Layer,
The Sound,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scientists,
DNA,
Supertramp,
Joe Smooth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nils Olav,
The Leaves,
The Victims,
The Last Poets,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Residents,
Negative Approach,
K-Klass,
Pole,
UT,
Icehouse,
ABBA,
the Sonics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Isaac Hayes,
Half Japanese,
Lakeside,
Jacques Brel,
Mission of Burma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cybotron,
The Mojo Men,
Pere Ubu,
Letta Mbulu,
The Monks,
Masters at Work,
Drive Like Jehu,
Junior Murvin,
Warren Ellis,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Anakelly,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Silicon Teens,
Reuben Wilson,
Simply Red,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Smiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cramps,
AZ,
Boredoms,
Porter Ricks,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.