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 India and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Lakeside to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All The Residents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Outsiders,
Simply Red,
Nils Olav,
Wasted Youth,
Joy Division,
EPMD,
Anakelly,
The Cramps,
Can,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
FM Einheit,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Bob Dylan,
PIL,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Royal Trux,
The Zeros,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Music Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Red Krayola,
Talk Talk,
Dead Boys,
Morten Harket,
Zapp,
Don Cherry,
Y Pants,
The Neon Judgement,
The J.B.'s,
Young Marble Giants,
The Mummies,
Cheater Slicks,
Pagans,
Man Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The New Christs,
Bronski Beat,
DNA,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cymande,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joey Negro,
Rakim,
Soulsonic Force,
Spandau Ballet,
Ronnie Foster,
Gichy Dan,
John Coltrane,
Gang Gang Dance,
Yusef Lateef,
Black Bananas,
Sarah Menescal,
Lower 48,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.