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 Netherlands and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Junior Murvin to the rap 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arthur Verocai,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Supertramp,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Hill,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
Pulsallama,
David Bowie,
Quando Quango,
The Litter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Howard Jones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Reagan Youth,
Lyres,
The Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Soul II Soul,
DJ Style,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultimate Spinach,
Depeche Mode,
Todd Terry,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Busters,
Monolake,
The Selecter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Thompson Twins,
The Move,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare,
Laurel Aitken,
Connie Case,
Soul Sonic Force,
Don Cherry,
The United States of America,
Franke,
Sugar Minott,
The Names,
Icehouse,
The Grass Roots,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thee Headcoats,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pussy Galore,
The Moody Blues,
The Index,
Cybotron,
The Electric Prunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ohio Players,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Wasted Youth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
Aaron Thompson,
Dual Sessions,
Blossom Toes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.