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 Estonia and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Holger Czukay 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 Roxette 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Zapp,
Rapeman,
Essential Logic,
Juan Atkins,
MC5,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
kango's stein massive,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Underground Resistance,
Groovy Waters,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Normal,
D'Angelo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Doors,
Michelle Simonal,
Minnie Riperton,
Swans,
The American Breed,
Easy Going,
Jeff Lynne,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
Rekid,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Hill,
Delta 5,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Minny Pops,
Henry Cow,
Banda Bassotti,
Reagan Youth,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
Organ,
Man Parrish,
Television,
Brothers Johnson,
Brand Nubian,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Swans,
Model 500,
The Tremeloes,
Cal Tjader,
David McCallum,
Guru Guru,
Aswad,
Bluetip,
Crispy Ambulance,
Throbbing Gristle,
Second Layer,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jimmy McGriff,
Massinfluence,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pere Ubu,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Quantec,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.