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 Kenya and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pulsallama to the funk 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Nils Olav,
Ossler,
The Dead C,
Soft Machine,
Joe Smooth,
Pierre Henry,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Depeche Mode,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tomorrow,
Joensuu 1685,
Essential Logic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Byron Stingily,
Slick Rick,
Roy Ayers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
H. Thieme,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Womack,
The Litter,
Mars,
Minny Pops,
Cluster,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Gun Club,
Stockholm Monsters,
Suicide,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Soft Cell,
Franke,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Vainqueur,
Boz Scaggs,
Sixth Finger,
Outsiders,
Dead Boys,
LL Cool J,
Clear Light,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Roxette,
D'Angelo,
Radio Birdman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Das Ding,
Thee Headcoats,
Maurizio,
Amon Düül II,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Altered Images,
Crime,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Los Fastidios,
Kerri Chandler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Holt,
Rapeman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Subhumans,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gap Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.