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 Belarus and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Alison Limerick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Inner City,
Steve Hackett,
PIL,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sun City Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Crash Course in Science,
Eddi Front,
Tommy Roe,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lakeside,
Faust,
Mark Hollis,
Nils Olav,
The Wake,
Procol Harum,
Goldenarms,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Q and Not U,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
Lalo Schifrin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blossom Toes,
The Last Poets,
Amon Düül II,
Stetsasonic,
Theoretical Girls,
Fugazi,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Absolute Body Control,
Alison Limerick,
Isaac Hayes,
The Cure,
John Cale,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Letta Mbulu,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker,
Ornette Coleman,
Mo-Dettes,
Intrusion,
Deepchord,
Gichy Dan,
Marvin Gaye,
Scrapy,
Hashim,
Qualms,
Guru Guru,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roy Ayers,
Rufus Thomas,
Sixth Finger,
Unwound,
Josef K,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
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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.