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 Slovenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Fluxion to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Basic Channel,
The Vogues,
Idris Muhammad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Barrington Levy,
Procol Harum,
Spoonie Gee,
U.S. Maple,
Nation of Ulysses,
The J.B.'s,
Colin Newman,
The Golliwogs,
Dead Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sandy B,
The Victims,
Groovy Waters,
Donny Hathaway,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Hill,
Alison Limerick,
Kas Product,
Tommy Roe,
The Misunderstood,
The Happenings,
Pierre Henry,
Lungfish,
DNA,
Dorothy Ashby,
Robert Wyatt,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vladislav Delay,
Essential Logic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Fraelich,
Stiv Bators,
Television,
Duran Duran,
Agent Orange,
Crooked Eye,
Technova,
Livin' Joy,
The Slackers,
Alton Ellis,
The Leaves,
Amon Düül II,
Yaz,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
The United States of America,
The Grass Roots,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
OOIOO,
Clear Light,
Oneida,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.