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 Panama and from New York.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Yusef Lateef to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bang On A Can,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Searchers,
Scan 7,
Schoolly D,
The Invisible,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Red Krayola,
Kenny Larkin,
Glenn Branca,
Peter & Gordon,
Nation of Ulysses,
John Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
In Retrospect,
Stereo Dub,
Nas,
Shoche,
Loose Ends,
Bobby Byrd,
The Index,
Blossom Toes,
Urselle,
The Doors,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deepchord,
Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Barracudas,
The Litter,
Negative Approach,
Mad Mike,
The Neon Judgement,
Ludus,
Cybotron,
Khruangbin,
CMW,
the Sonics,
Zero Boys,
The Durutti Column,
AZ,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Moody Blues,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kevin Saunderson,
David McCallum,
Colin Newman,
Reagan Youth,
The Mummies,
Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Delta 5,
Easy Going,
Donny Hathaway,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.