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 Montenegro and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Silicon Teens to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nick Fraelich,
Scan 7,
Ohio Players,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Angels of Light,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
The Gap Band,
Slick Rick,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blake Baxter,
Jeff Mills,
The Associates,
Ponytail,
Camberwell Now,
Connie Case,
The Detroit Cobras,
Schoolly D,
Mars,
Royal Trux,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Frankie Knuckles,
Aswad,
Hoover,
The Young Rascals,
Tres Demented,
Mantronix,
Kas Product,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Lebanon Hanover,
Iggy Pop,
Wings,
Roxy Music,
Jeru the Damaja,
Funky Four + One,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joey Negro,
F. McDonald,
Bang On A Can,
Lou Christie,
Rufus Thomas,
Barbara Tucker,
Stockholm Monsters,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fall,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Country Teasers,
Lucky Dragons,
Lungfish,
Agitation Free,
The Golliwogs,
Minutemen,
Rekid,
The Beau Brummels,
Soulsonic Force,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.