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 Tunisia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Grey Daturas to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faust,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
Soft Machine,
China Crisis,
Black Flag,
Althea and Donna,
The Pretty Things,
A Certain Ratio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harry Pussy,
Metal Thangz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
E-Dancer,
Slick Rick,
Sugar Minott,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kayak,
Soul II Soul,
David Axelrod,
The Music Machine,
Erasure,
Don Cherry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Searchers,
Black Moon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flash Fearless,
Eric Dolphy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Whodini,
Lalo Schifrin,
Piero Umiliani,
The Fugs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Second Layer,
Prince Buster,
Frankie Knuckles,
Niagra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Warren Ellis,
Hardrive,
The Gun Club,
Sam Rivers,
ABC,
Oneida,
Amazonics,
The J.B.'s,
Moebius,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Yazoo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ten City,
Drexciya,
The Gladiators,
Donny Hathaway,
Unwound,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.