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 Serbia and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 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 The Human League to the techno 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Agent Orange,
Gil Scott Heron,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Make Up,
Fluxion,
Moss Icon,
Marvin Gaye,
the Germs,
Procol Harum,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Standells,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
Cymande,
X-102,
Silicon Teens,
AZ,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
Ice-T,
H. Thieme,
Prince Buster,
ABBA,
Brand Nubian,
E-Dancer,
Soft Machine,
The Motions,
The Beau Brummels,
Lalann,
Yusef Lateef,
The Music Machine,
Livin' Joy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Skatalites,
Lyres,
John Cale,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eden Ahbez,
The Evens,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Supertramp,
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Warsaw,
Alton Ellis,
Accadde A,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Suicide,
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.