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 Afghanistan and from New York.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Negative Approach to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bob Dylan,
Letta Mbulu,
Sexual Harrassment,
Animal Collective,
Mission of Burma,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobby Womack,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
D'Angelo,
Theoretical Girls,
Parry Music,
Con Funk Shun,
Rotary Connection,
The Golliwogs,
Tim Buckley,
Ohio Players,
Juan Atkins,
Bobby Sherman,
The Names,
B.T. Express,
Black Bananas,
The J.B.'s,
Soul II Soul,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Chris & Cosey,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funky Four + One,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kevin Saunderson,
Adolescents,
Ronnie Foster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Half Japanese,
Cheater Slicks,
The Invisible,
The Dirtbombs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Clear Light,
Tres Demented,
Leonard Cohen,
The Cowsills,
the Human League,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang of Four,
Man Eating Sloth,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Knickerbockers,
Talk Talk,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun Ra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Q and Not U,
Dawn Penn,
The Evens,
the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays, the Bar-Kays.
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.