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 Jordan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 Underground Resistance to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Iggy Pop,
Babytalk,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Association,
Vainqueur,
Erykah Badu,
The Mojo Men,
Grey Daturas,
Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Wyatt,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fatback Band,
This Heat,
Fear,
Black Sheep,
Mantronix,
Darondo,
Unwound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronnie Foster,
Porter Ricks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eli Mardock,
The Moody Blues,
Bob Dylan,
Carl Craig,
Ornette Coleman,
Kevin Saunderson,
Funkadelic,
Sandy B,
Thee Headcoats,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Grass Roots,
The Cure,
Heaven 17,
Brass Construction,
Pylon,
Sound Behaviour,
the Soft Cell,
Matthew Halsall,
The Busters,
UT,
Gregory Isaacs,
Metal Thangz,
Jerry's Kids,
DJ Sneak,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Evens,
Eve St. Jones,
Moby Grape,
Make Up,
Throbbing Gristle,
Unrelated Segments,
Ronan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Archie Shepp,
Infiniti,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Young Rascals,
DJ Style,
Ultra Naté,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.