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 Palau and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the marimba 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 Soul II Soul to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Althea and Donna,
The Doors,
Lindisfarne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lou Reed,
Dark Day,
Donny Hathaway,
The Five Americans,
New Order,
Alton Ellis,
Sarah Menescal,
The Last Poets,
Sällskapet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Delta 5,
James White and The Blacks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Absolute Body Control,
This Heat,
Camberwell Now,
Das Ding,
Negative Approach,
Minor Threat,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Hoover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Silicon Teens,
Barclay James Harvest,
The American Breed,
Sparks,
Outsiders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
ABBA,
Roy Ayers,
The Dead C,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cure,
The Invisible,
KRS-One,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mo-Dettes,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Neil Young,
Robert Görl,
The Black Dice,
Talk Talk,
Black Sheep,
Loose Ends,
Panda Bear,
Joy Division,
The Blackbyrds,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.