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 Guinea and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Mad Mike to the techno 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The American Breed,
The Sound,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Toni Rubio,
UT,
The Cramps,
Mad Mike,
Hashim,
Khruangbin,
MDC,
Tears for Fears,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fad Gadget,
The United States of America,
Andrew Hill,
Suicide,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neil Young,
Minor Threat,
Rakim,
The Zeros,
Bauhaus,
Blake Baxter,
Eden Ahbez,
Marmalade,
Susan Cadogan,
Faust,
Erasure,
Kevin Saunderson,
Average White Band,
Yaz,
Crime,
Parry Music,
Sarah Menescal,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Chris & Cosey,
Los Fastidios,
The J.B.'s,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Terry Callier,
Duran Duran,
The Gories,
MC5,
Prince Buster,
The Red Krayola,
Jandek,
EPMD,
Ronan,
Quantec,
The Searchers,
CMW,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
This Heat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roy Ayers,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.