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 Liberia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Faraquet to the grime 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Soft Cell,
Das Ding,
Crispian St. Peters,
Blancmange,
Darondo,
Yaz,
Don Cherry,
Faraquet,
Josef K,
Lucky Dragons,
Hoover,
Donny Hathaway,
Swell Maps,
David McCallum,
Half Japanese,
Franke,
Eric Copeland,
Cybotron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Count Five,
Nico,
The Zeros,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Normal,
London Community Gospel Choir,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Letta Mbulu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fat Boys,
Dead Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
Iggy Pop,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cramps,
Kerri Chandler,
R.M.O.,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lungfish,
Procol Harum,
Japan,
Arthur Verocai,
Lakeside,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
DNA,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marine Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Association,
Khruangbin,
Fear,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.