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 Kazakhstan and from London.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Yaz to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Alice Coltrane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
ABBA,
X-102,
Lebanon Hanover,
Funky Four + One,
Nation of Ulysses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funkadelic,
Mad Mike,
The Young Rascals,
Basic Channel,
Gastr Del Sol,
Main Source,
Quando Quango,
Sixth Finger,
Interpol,
New Order,
Josef K,
Easy Going,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Eric Copeland,
Piero Umiliani,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stereo Dub,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
T. Rex,
FM Einheit,
Black Bananas,
Negative Approach,
Jeff Mills,
Sight & Sound,
The Stooges,
Bush Tetras,
Radiopuhelimet,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang of Four,
The Buckinghams,
Tim Buckley,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ronan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joyce Sims,
Boogie Down Productions,
This Heat,
Robert Hood,
Hashim,
Hardrive,
Blossom Toes,
Connie Case,
The Misunderstood,
The Slackers,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Flag,
Reagan Youth,
The Last Poets,
The Divine Comedy,
UT,
Tres Demented,
Monks, Monks, Monks, Monks.
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.