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 Bulgaria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 arpeggiator 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 Kevin Saunderson to the rap 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
Skaos,
The Count Five,
Television,
Tom Boy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Archie Shepp,
The Human League,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ponytail,
The Dead C,
Duran Duran,
Wasted Youth,
Eli Mardock,
Rakim,
DNA,
Gregory Isaacs,
Erykah Badu,
Ornette Coleman,
Monolake,
Fugazi,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moody Blues,
Inner City,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
L. Decosne,
Byron Stingily,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Gladiators,
Aloha Tigers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Dead Boys,
Desert Stars,
Zapp,
Underground Resistance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Basic Channel,
Maurizio,
Shuggie Otis,
Carl Craig,
Minor Threat,
Organ,
The Raincoats,
Josef K,
Matthew Bourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Henry Cow,
The United States of America,
Bootsy Collins,
Massinfluence,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.