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 Norway and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 güiro 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 The Modern Lovers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters 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?
Stockholm Monsters,
Vladislav Delay,
Organ,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Erasure,
Malaria!,
Delta 5,
Ice-T,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fuzztones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Country Teasers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Zapp,
The Kinks,
Wings,
Ken Boothe,
Khruangbin,
Slick Rick,
Judy Mowatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
AZ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Massinfluence,
Nik Kershaw,
Mary Jane Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
T. Rex,
Fifty Foot Hose,
David Axelrod,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronan,
Gang Green,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Henry Cow,
the Human League,
The Pretty Things,
James White and The Blacks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suburban Knight,
Marvin Gaye,
The Zeros,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Peter & Gordon,
Electric Prunes,
Moebius,
The Seeds,
Rosa Yemen,
Bauhaus,
The Fortunes,
Sixth Finger,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.