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 Korea North and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Dead C to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mad Mike record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Adolescents,
Gong,
Shuggie Otis,
Sarah Menescal,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Radiopuhelimet,
DJ Style,
Scion,
Susan Cadogan,
The Star Department,
Chris Corsano,
Jawbox,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hoover,
Lucky Dragons,
The Names,
Sonny Sharrock,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Eddi Front,
Franke,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Donny Hathaway,
Eve St. Jones,
K-Klass,
Yazoo,
The Associates,
the Association,
The Residents,
The Offenders,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kaleidoscope,
Pagans,
OOIOO,
Hashim,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brick,
U.S. Maple,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fela Kuti,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swell Maps,
Lalo Schifrin,
Faraquet,
Janne Schatter,
Electric Prunes,
The Real Kids,
Half Japanese,
Kenny Larkin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Joe Smooth,
The Victims,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.