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 Ireland and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Sunsets and Hearts to the funk 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Slave,
Gang Green,
Underground Resistance,
The Mummies,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crime,
Second Layer,
Barrington Levy,
Babytalk,
The Detroit Cobras,
Icehouse,
Surgeon,
Todd Terry,
Soul II Soul,
Radiohead,
Chris Corsano,
Boz Scaggs,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
The United States of America,
Ossler,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lower 48,
Matthew Halsall,
Traffic Nightmare,
Con Funk Shun,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dawn Penn,
The Mojo Men,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kaleidoscope,
Pulsallama,
Rod Modell,
CMW,
The Moody Blues,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scan 7,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grey Daturas,
Ronnie Foster,
Stiv Bators,
Deadbeat,
This Heat,
Eurythmics,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Lydon,
Erykah Badu,
Little Man,
Barry Ungar,
Maurizio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
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You don't know what you really want.