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 Iraq and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Portland and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 harpsichord 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 Ralphi Rosario to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Parry Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Bauhaus,
Godley & Creme,
David McCallum,
Schoolly D,
The Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
The Kinks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scientists,
Lower 48,
The Selecter,
Animal Collective,
Charles Mingus,
Make Up,
Mission of Burma,
Kenny Larkin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Robert Wyatt,
The Residents,
Barbara Tucker,
Avey Tare,
Main Source,
Newcleus,
Babytalk,
Fear,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chris Corsano,
Eric Copeland,
Andrew Hill,
The Fuzztones,
The Monks,
Dual Sessions,
Gang Green,
Parry Music,
Tim Buckley,
Anakelly,
Magma,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Busters,
Camouflage,
Scrapy,
Steve Hackett,
Gang of Four,
Nas,
Moss Icon,
Black Moon,
Soul Sonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Pylon,
Rotary Connection,
Sight & Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
Massinfluence,
Soft Machine,
Electric Prunes,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Cure,
Circle Jerks,
Nick Fraelich,
DJ Sneak,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.