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 India and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manchester.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joe Smooth to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boredoms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
The Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Mandrill,
Index,
Liliput,
X-Ray Spex,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lalann,
Black Moon,
kango's stein massive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nirvana,
Dave Gahan,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
The Real Kids,
Smog,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
UT,
Y Pants,
La Düsseldorf,
Joyce Sims,
Eli Mardock,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bang On A Can,
Kaleidoscope,
The Doobie Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Surgeon,
Gang Starr,
Vladislav Delay,
Grey Daturas,
AZ,
Aural Exciters,
The Angels of Light,
Agent Orange,
Heaven 17,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dennis Brown,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q and Not U,
X-101,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Half Japanese,
OOIOO,
Blossom Toes,
Lindisfarne,
Matthew Bourne,
Eurythmics,
Con Funk Shun,
DJ Sneak,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Kinks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kerri Chandler,
Camberwell Now,
Clear Light,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.