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 Burkina and from New York.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Gong to the techno 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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharoah Sanders 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Echospace,
Scion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
La Düsseldorf,
The Smoke,
New Order,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sister Nancy,
kango's stein massive,
Royal Trux,
The Flesh Eaters,
Underground Resistance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ituana,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lightning Bolt,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cymande,
Leonard Cohen,
Brothers Johnson,
These Immortal Souls,
the Bar-Kays,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Byrd,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
U.S. Maple,
Bootsy Collins,
Excepter,
Barbara Tucker,
Marshall Jefferson,
Organ,
The American Breed,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Mills,
Moebius,
Mission of Burma,
Joensuu 1685,
Jesper Dahlback,
Flamin' Groovies,
Barclay James Harvest,
R.M.O.,
Ultra Naté,
Adolescents,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Dirtbombs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cecil Taylor,
Freddie Wadling,
The Beau Brummels,
Laurel Aitken,
Yellowson,
Terry Callier,
Audionom,
The Buckinghams,
Q and Not U,
The Invisible,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Victims,
the Germs,
H. Thieme,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.