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 Uganda and from Edmonton.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum 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 Rotary Connection to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Chris Corsano,
Jimmy McGriff,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tropical Tobacco,
Robert Hood,
Porter Ricks,
Chris & Cosey,
The Star Department,
Colin Newman,
The Dave Clark Five,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
UT,
Blancmange,
The Vogues,
The Cure,
Crime,
The Martian,
Drexciya,
Ohio Players,
Sarah Menescal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Country Teasers,
Joyce Sims,
Soulsonic Force,
Shoche,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Wyatt,
Carl Craig,
Lebanon Hanover,
Boz Scaggs,
Lightning Bolt,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Real Kids,
Eli Mardock,
Joe Finger,
Monolake,
Althea and Donna,
Neu!,
Roxette,
Donald Byrd,
Hardrive,
Toni Rubio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Harmonia,
Quadrant,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Womack,
Isaac Hayes,
Second Layer,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Clarke,
New Age Steppers,
Mark Hollis,
The United States of America,
Fad Gadget,
The Grass Roots,
Slave,
Qualms,
Quando Quango,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.