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 Philippines and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Sam Rivers to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Donny Hathaway,
Lou Christie,
Fear,
Barry Ungar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Pretty Things,
Aural Exciters,
The Move,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sandy B,
The New Christs,
Jeff Mills,
Motorama,
Brothers Johnson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Don Cherry,
E-Dancer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mad Mike,
Piero Umiliani,
Juan Atkins,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Franke,
The Wake,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lakeside,
Gang Green,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
Lightning Bolt,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gastr Del Sol,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Velvet Underground,
MC5,
The Alarm Clocks,
Glenn Branca,
Aaron Thompson,
Technova,
Shuggie Otis,
Supertramp,
Rufus Thomas,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eve St. Jones,
Q65,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
Marshall Jefferson,
Stetsasonic,
Buzzcocks,
Brand Nubian,
Camberwell Now,
Au Pairs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
Henry Cow,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.