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 Tunisia and from Lagos.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 linndrum 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 Yellowson to the rock 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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wally Richardson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scientists record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Flash Fearless,
Surgeon,
Cybotron,
Donny Hathaway,
Fat Boys,
Cal Tjader,
Interpol,
Bauhaus,
Anakelly,
Moss Icon,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dead C,
The Red Krayola,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lightning Bolt,
The Gladiators,
MDC,
The Residents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grauzone,
Ultra Naté,
Nico,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Mummies,
Camberwell Now,
Youth Brigade,
Electric Prunes,
Bobby Sherman,
Kas Product,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The American Breed,
LL Cool J,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Terry,
Charles Mingus,
the Human League,
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Brick,
Roxy Music,
The Fugs,
Josef K,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Star Department,
Mark Hollis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eric Copeland,
Johnny Clarke,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
EPMD,
David McCallum,
DJ Style,
Fatback Band,
cv313,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.