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 Mauritania and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Erykah Badu to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Blake Baxter,
Y Pants,
Au Pairs,
Delta 5,
The United States of America,
Darondo,
The Evens,
Grey Daturas,
Soulsonic Force,
Don Cherry,
Byron Stingily,
Fugazi,
The Doors,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun City Girls,
Brothers Johnson,
The Residents,
T. Rex,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Gun Club,
Charles Mingus,
LL Cool J,
In Retrospect,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
June Days,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Searchers,
Jerry's Kids,
Mark Hollis,
Cheater Slicks,
The Beau Brummels,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dual Sessions,
The J.B.'s,
Marvin Gaye,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Neon Judgement,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultravox,
Al Stewart,
Guru Guru,
Donald Byrd,
Underground Resistance,
Alphaville,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Velvet Underground,
Faust,
MDC,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Malaria!,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kenny Larkin,
Terrestrial Tones,
Silicon Teens,
Juan Atkins,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.