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 Antigua and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Peter and Kerry to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Shoche tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Ituana,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fuzztones,
Isaac Hayes,
Gong,
Jandek,
Matthew Bourne,
Rosa Yemen,
The Pop Group,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sun City Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Rakim,
Hoover,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Connie Case,
Ornette Coleman,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Human League,
Mantronix,
Althea and Donna,
Absolute Body Control,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MDC,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Severed Heads,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tim Buckley,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eric Dolphy,
Drexciya,
Duran Duran,
Brick,
Bootsy Collins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sugar Minott,
Television,
Model 500,
Minutemen,
U.S. Maple,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Slick Rick,
Boredoms,
Matthew Halsall,
A Certain Ratio,
PIL,
Public Enemy,
Lucky Dragons,
Moebius,
Scrapy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Marmalade,
Dead Boys,
Alison Limerick,
CMW,
Bronski Beat,
UT,
Deepchord,
Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys.
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.