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 Barbados and from Toronto.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin 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 Aural Exciters to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Dennis Brown,
Maurizio,
Glenn Branca,
John Coltrane,
Faraquet,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Underground Resistance,
Ossler,
U.S. Maple,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Toasters,
Spoonie Gee,
Cecil Taylor,
Royal Trux,
Qualms,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Residents,
Lalann,
Bluetip,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Moss Icon,
Liliput,
Pierre Henry,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dead Boys,
Flash Fearless,
Main Source,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mission of Burma,
Marvin Gaye,
New Age Steppers,
The Invisible,
Gichy Dan,
Niagra,
Deakin,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marc Almond,
Pylon,
Banda Bassotti,
Skaos,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lucky Dragons,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Deadbeat,
H. Thieme,
Scott Walker,
Sarah Menescal,
Arcadia,
Organ,
The Velvet Underground,
Sonic Youth,
Thompson Twins,
The Last Poets,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Erasure,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.