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 Uganda and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Godley & Creme to the funk 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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Victims,
Mr. Review,
Lungfish,
The Seeds,
Curtis Mayfield,
Vainqueur,
Terry Callier,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Names,
Shuggie Otis,
The Misunderstood,
John Foxx,
The Modern Lovers,
Cheater Slicks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Shoche,
Joey Negro,
Girls At Our Best!,
Prince Buster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cal Tjader,
Erasure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Susan Cadogan,
Maleditus Sound,
Sight & Sound,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Slackers,
Procol Harum,
The Durutti Column,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Hood,
Idris Muhammad,
Barrington Levy,
Sister Nancy,
Hot Snakes,
Reagan Youth,
Blake Baxter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radio Birdman,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash,
Parry Music,
Marine Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Donald Byrd,
The Real Kids,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moss Icon,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.