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 Burkina and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Busters. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Robert Wyatt,
UT,
The Smiths,
Subhumans,
Chris & Cosey,
The Music Machine,
Minny Pops,
Isaac Hayes,
The Fugs,
Von Mondo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Parry Music,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Boredoms,
Rekid,
Sun City Girls,
Sugar Minott,
Tropical Tobacco,
Monks,
the Normal,
Monolake,
Fatback Band,
The Fall,
Liliput,
D'Angelo,
Amon Düül,
Pagans,
Idris Muhammad,
Ludus,
Morten Harket,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Todd Terry,
Yaz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Siglo XX,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jerry Gold Smith,
X-101,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Lyres,
Oblivians,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agitation Free,
Kevin Saunderson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sight & Sound,
The Doobie Brothers,
Vainqueur,
The American Breed,
Los Fastidios,
Ornette Coleman,
Sixth Finger,
H. Thieme,
Tubeway Army,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.