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 Eritrea and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visage to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jimmy McGriff,
Unrelated Segments,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Gap Band,
Cymande,
Derrick May,
Essential Logic,
Quantec,
The Young Rascals,
Joensuu 1685,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
X-101,
Tres Demented,
Nik Kershaw,
Roger Hodgson,
Agitation Free,
Roy Ayers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Junior Murvin,
L. Decosne,
Basic Channel,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Music Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hardrive,
Eric Copeland,
Bad Manners,
Sun City Girls,
Wire,
The Black Dice,
Amon Düül,
Tears for Fears,
Little Man,
Gong,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
These Immortal Souls,
Cybotron,
The United States of America,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tommy Roe,
The Real Kids,
The Dave Clark Five,
Blake Baxter,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Sonics,
The Invisible,
Vladislav Delay,
Anakelly,
Crime,
Von Mondo,
Arthur Verocai,
Harmonia,
Television Personalities,
The Smiths,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deepchord,
Bootsy Collins,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.