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 Spain and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 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 10cc to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Massinfluence,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lou Reed,
Black Sheep,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chris & Cosey,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Livin' Joy,
Procol Harum,
The Move,
Donald Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Scott Walker,
Kerri Chandler,
Trumans Water,
The Happenings,
Yaz,
Lyres,
Rekid,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Matthew Bourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Khruangbin,
Ludus,
Ronnie Foster,
Isaac Hayes,
The Modern Lovers,
Roy Ayers,
Sparks,
Eric Dolphy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cal Tjader,
Marc Almond,
The Smiths,
MDC,
Unrelated Segments,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Siglo XX,
The Knickerbockers,
Marmalade,
Jerry's Kids,
Vladislav Delay,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alice Coltrane,
The Busters,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
KRS-One,
The Count Five,
Marvin Gaye,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Saints,
Ice-T,
Brick,
Malaria!,
Silicon Teens,
The Dave Clark Five,
Andrew Hill,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.