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 India and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin 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 Alice Coltrane to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Fugazi,
Babytalk,
Youth Brigade,
Quando Quango,
Leonard Cohen,
Barrington Levy,
Desert Stars,
Kerri Chandler,
Shuggie Otis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Iggy Pop,
Mantronix,
Jeff Lynne,
Erasure,
The Leaves,
Sam Rivers,
Alison Limerick,
the Soft Cell,
Sister Nancy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Howard Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
The Skatalites,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Laurel Aitken,
New Age Steppers,
Livin' Joy,
The Happenings,
Animal Collective,
China Crisis,
Sarah Menescal,
Gabor Szabo,
Suicide,
Black Moon,
Grauzone,
Funky Four + One,
LL Cool J,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Birthday Party,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wire,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Scrapy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cameo,
Reuben Wilson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rosa Yemen,
Gichy Dan,
Morten Harket,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pagans,
Robert Hood,
Pantaleimon,
Judy Mowatt,
Ludus,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gun Club,
Brass Construction,
This Heat,
Section 25,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.