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 Samoa and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Copenhagen.
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 sitar 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 Motorama to the dance 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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
The Fortunes,
Robert Görl,
Cybotron,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Associates,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rapeman,
ABC,
Sixth Finger,
The Cramps,
Oneida,
Mad Mike,
David Axelrod,
Joe Smooth,
Lungfish,
Qualms,
Pierre Henry,
Skriet,
Wasted Youth,
Eli Mardock,
Joensuu 1685,
OOIOO,
Ossler,
Bronski Beat,
Grauzone,
Y Pants,
Todd Terry,
Soft Cell,
Charles Mingus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Echospace,
Alton Ellis,
Neu!,
Jeru the Damaja,
John Lydon,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Style,
Harmonia,
Sarah Menescal,
Heaven 17,
Toni Rubio,
Deadbeat,
The Divine Comedy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gories,
Blancmange,
Gang Green,
Jeff Lynne,
Television Personalities,
Zero Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Boz Scaggs,
Pagans,
Agitation Free,
Unrelated Segments,
The Durutti Column,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.