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 United States and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 arpeggiator 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 Bobby Byrd to the grime 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
Mr. Review,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
a-ha,
Lalann,
Pole,
Model 500,
Sister Nancy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Slave,
The Slackers,
Drexciya,
Delon & Dalcan,
Janne Schatter,
Sound Behaviour,
The Buckinghams,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Marvin Gaye,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
EPMD,
Rhythm & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiohead,
Blossom Toes,
cv313,
Max Romeo,
Bill Near,
Gichy Dan,
Alton Ellis,
Massinfluence,
These Immortal Souls,
Scientists,
Crooked Eye,
Yusef Lateef,
Mars,
Soft Machine,
The J.B.'s,
Jacob Miller,
Parry Music,
Sun City Girls,
The Busters,
Cymande,
Flash Fearless,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Qualms,
Lakeside,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cure,
DJ Sneak,
The Golliwogs,
Minny Pops,
Morten Harket,
Yellowson,
New York Dolls,
Anakelly,
Television,
Whodini,
Idris Muhammad,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.