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 Belize and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Calgary and Philadelphia.
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 snare 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 Tom Boy to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Letta Mbulu,
Alison Limerick,
Mandrill,
The Slackers,
The Golliwogs,
Ossler,
Fad Gadget,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stereo Dub,
Black Moon,
Duran Duran,
The Busters,
Ten City,
Dark Day,
Bill Wells,
Eli Mardock,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
Visage,
Quando Quango,
Neil Young,
Severed Heads,
Flash Fearless,
Youth Brigade,
Thee Headcoats,
Joensuu 1685,
The Music Machine,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Five Americans,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Joe Smooth,
Patti Smith,
The Slits,
Robert Wyatt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Zero Boys,
Soft Cell,
World's Most,
The Trojans,
Sister Nancy,
John Cale,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Magazine,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Spoonie Gee,
Camouflage,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bang On A Can,
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp.,
Minnie Riperton,
Hashim,
Little Man,
Make Up,
a-ha,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.