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 Ireland and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 Idris Muhammad to the disco 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Pop Group,
The Dave Clark Five,
AZ,
Arcadia,
the Fania All-Stars,
Steve Hackett,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Sheep,
Don Cherry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Jawbox,
The Flesh Eaters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lungfish,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pole,
Amon Düül II,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Altered Images,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Model 500,
Tropical Tobacco,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jeff Mills,
8 Eyed Spy,
Anakelly,
Eric B and Rakim,
This Heat,
The Velvet Underground,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deepchord,
The Blues Magoos,
Man Parrish,
Moss Icon,
The Sound,
Graham Central Station,
The Index,
Scratch Acid,
The Fortunes,
Rosa Yemen,
Silicon Teens,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Minnie Riperton,
Flash Fearless,
Blossom Toes,
Sarah Menescal,
Dawn Penn,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ten City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.