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 Fiji and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Nirvana to the rap 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 David Bowie. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DNA,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eddi Front,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Technova,
Rotary Connection,
Gastr Del Sol,
Simply Red,
Joey Negro,
Ronan,
FM Einheit,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gregory Isaacs,
Black Pus,
Terrestrial Tones,
10cc,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Grey Daturas,
The Motions,
Mark Hollis,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fortunes,
KRS-One,
Mars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scott Walker,
Quadrant,
Bad Manners,
The Selecter,
the Sonics,
Motorama,
Albert Ayler,
Buzzcocks,
The Monochrome Set,
June of 44,
The Saints,
Infiniti,
JFA,
Bill Near,
L. Decosne,
Davy DMX,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Michelle Simonal,
Wings,
The Fall,
Television Personalities,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ponytail,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
PIL,
Lakeside,
Popol Vuh,
The Pretty Things,
Young Marble Giants,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fat Boys,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.