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 Ecuador and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
The Gap Band,
Prince Buster,
Sun Ra,
Johnny Clarke,
Rod Modell,
kango's stein massive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Slackers,
Ronan,
Lou Reed,
48th St. Collective,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
Warren Ellis,
Mission of Burma,
Rekid,
Crime,
Lalann,
B.T. Express,
Jimmy McGriff,
Excepter,
The Vogues,
Kurtis Blow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Newcleus,
Carl Craig,
The Dave Clark Five,
Max Romeo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Altered Images,
The Wake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Television,
Scion,
Ultravox,
Stockholm Monsters,
Leonard Cohen,
DNA,
Fugazi,
Althea and Donna,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Toasters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
The Fuzztones,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Human League,
Barrington Levy,
Infiniti,
the Human League,
The Music Machine,
Cybotron,
Piero Umiliani,
Sound Behaviour,
Outsiders,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Bananas,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.