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 Azerbaijan and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Absolute Body Control to the rock 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Remains,
X-102,
Ohio Players,
E-Dancer,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Toasters,
The Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric Copeland,
Erykah Badu,
Josef K,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q65,
Basic Channel,
The Invisible,
Gregory Isaacs,
Essential Logic,
One Last Wish,
The Skatalites,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Flag,
The Grass Roots,
Anakelly,
The Barracudas,
Aloha Tigers,
Mad Mike,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Sherman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Byrd,
KRS-One,
China Crisis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ten City,
Sun Ra,
Simply Red,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Smiths,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Visage,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
Flipper,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Sisters of Mercy,
UT,
Lou Reed,
Interpol,
The Blues Magoos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
EPMD,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rapeman,
Section 25,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes,
Freddie Wadling,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.