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 Algeria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Vainqueur to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Dennis Brown,
The Human League,
Fatback Band,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gun Club,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quadrant,
The Golliwogs,
David McCallum,
Jacob Miller,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kurtis Blow,
Livin' Joy,
Camouflage,
Gong,
Lou Christie,
Eric Dolphy,
Audionom,
The Motions,
Magma,
Yaz,
The Toasters,
X-102,
Lindisfarne,
Angry Samoans,
Groovy Waters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Matthew Bourne,
The Walker Brothers,
David Bowie,
Boz Scaggs,
Ultimate Spinach,
Morten Harket,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mantronix,
Eve St. Jones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pagans,
Ken Boothe,
Reuben Wilson,
Excepter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Hill,
Guru Guru,
The Cowsills,
The Happenings,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deakin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scott Walker,
Connie Case,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Womack,
Charles Mingus,
Lungfish,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.