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 Montenegro and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer 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 Unrelated Segments to the jazz 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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Alice Coltrane,
A Certain Ratio,
Carl Craig,
Guru Guru,
Sex Pistols,
This Heat,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
Bootsy Collins,
Simply Red,
Ultravox,
The Buckinghams,
The Tremeloes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Circle Jerks,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Swans,
David Bowie,
Camouflage,
Oblivians,
Nico,
Derrick Morgan,
EPMD,
Marc Almond,
Avey Tare,
James White and The Blacks,
DJ Style,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Max Romeo,
The Divine Comedy,
Surgeon,
Urselle,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fire Engines,
Gabor Szabo,
Y Pants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Theoretical Girls,
Black Flag,
Talk Talk,
Con Funk Shun,
Colin Newman,
Glenn Branca,
Gil Scott Heron,
T. Rex,
Banda Bassotti,
Derrick May,
Agent Orange,
Lightning Bolt,
Massinfluence,
Rotary Connection,
World's Most,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Donald Byrd,
F. McDonald,
Can,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.