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 Poland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Magazine to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Television,
Bobby Womack,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Blossom Toes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fluxion,
Girls At Our Best!,
Blancmange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pantytec,
Steve Hackett,
Nick Fraelich,
Lower 48,
The Selecter,
The Velvet Underground,
Archie Shepp,
Avey Tare,
Inner City,
Audionom,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The J.B.'s,
Aural Exciters,
D'Angelo,
Harmonia,
Nils Olav,
The Smoke,
Cluster,
Camouflage,
Eurythmics,
the Swans,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Ice-T,
Funkadelic,
Bill Near,
Susan Cadogan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Juan Atkins,
Suicide,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boogie Down Productions,
Q and Not U,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rites of Spring,
OOIOO,
Arthur Verocai,
The Dead C,
ABBA,
Sex Pistols,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eden Ahbez,
Kayak,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bobby Byrd,
The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers, The Cosmic Jokers.
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.