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 Haiti and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the disco 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Funky Four + One,
Drexciya,
Marmalade,
Kenny Larkin,
The Durutti Column,
Deakin,
Judy Mowatt,
Japan,
Dark Day,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
Al Stewart,
Popol Vuh,
Organ,
Ornette Coleman,
The Blues Magoos,
Easy Going,
The Angels of Light,
Motorama,
Hasil Adkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Carl Craig,
The Moleskins,
Pulsallama,
Jacques Brel,
Marc Almond,
Bill Wells,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dead Boys,
Animal Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Joensuu 1685,
Arcadia,
Eve St. Jones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Leaves,
Andrew Hill,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bob Dylan,
Aural Exciters,
The Barracudas,
UT,
the Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
The Last Poets,
Zapp,
Henry Cow,
Don Cherry,
Lou Christie,
Mark Hollis,
Amon Düül,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
L. Decosne,
Pantaleimon,
Pere Ubu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minnie Riperton,
Moby Grape,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.