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 Lithuania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare 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 Technova to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Silicon Teens 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flipper record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Lindisfarne,
Joyce Sims,
Black Bananas,
Jawbox,
The United States of America,
Eric Copeland,
Monks,
Boz Scaggs,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kayak,
The Leaves,
Davy DMX,
a-ha,
Kas Product,
Gang Green,
Matthew Bourne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Half Japanese,
Cymande,
Drexciya,
The Mojo Men,
Barrington Levy,
Wasted Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Saints,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Fuzztones,
Bush Tetras,
The Mighty Diamonds,
La Düsseldorf,
JFA,
Dark Day,
Whodini,
Fluxion,
Pantytec,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tubeway Army,
Hoover,
Reuben Wilson,
Morten Harket,
The Five Americans,
Black Flag,
Aloha Tigers,
Yellowson,
The Kinks,
Heaven 17,
The American Breed,
DNA,
Fat Boys,
Malaria!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fela Kuti,
The Fugs,
The Evens,
Patti Smith,
X-101,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Faraquet,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.