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 Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Rundgren,
Siglo XX,
Cheater Slicks,
Hashim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Arthur Verocai,
DJ Style,
John Lydon,
The Blackbyrds,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skriet,
Erasure,
cv313,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Womack,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Anakelly,
Anthony Braxton,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Searchers,
Crash Course in Science,
Bad Manners,
The Barracudas,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter and Kerry,
Talk Talk,
The Dirtbombs,
The Beau Brummels,
Absolute Body Control,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
The Cramps,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fugazi,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Joe Finger,
Glenn Branca,
Adolescents,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Guru Guru,
The Moleskins,
Brick,
Patti Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Magazine,
La Düsseldorf,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
The Vogues,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Davy DMX,
Franke,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.