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 France and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Derrick May to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Niagra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The J.B.'s,
Stiv Bators,
Todd Rundgren,
Harpers Bizarre,
Main Source,
Vladislav Delay,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brass Construction,
Fear,
Tubeway Army,
Quadrant,
Darondo,
Lakeside,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Hill,
Eli Mardock,
The Index,
Symarip,
Donald Byrd,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young,
Stockholm Monsters,
Technova,
E-Dancer,
Funky Four + One,
Clear Light,
Grey Daturas,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alice Coltrane,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wire,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scrapy,
Bluetip,
The Tremeloes,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Sherman,
Connie Case,
Eric Dolphy,
Los Fastidios,
Country Teasers,
Harmonia,
The Black Dice,
Drexciya,
Section 25,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Terry,
The Divine Comedy,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.