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 Sri Lanka and from Manila.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 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 Marcia Griffiths to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Lungfish,
The Saints,
Los Fastidios,
The Martian,
Basic Channel,
The Monochrome Set,
Section 25,
Sparks,
Ponytail,
Thompson Twins,
The Cure,
Brand Nubian,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nick Fraelich,
Niagra,
DJ Style,
The Human League,
Marshall Jefferson,
Animal Collective,
The Grass Roots,
Maleditus Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Marmalade,
Sarah Menescal,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cheater Slicks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Al Stewart,
The Music Machine,
The Standells,
MDC,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sandy B,
The Fire Engines,
Bill Near,
Accadde A,
The Gories,
Dorothy Ashby,
Underground Resistance,
FM Einheit,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
David McCallum,
Model 500,
Matthew Halsall,
Hoover,
Radio Birdman,
Peter & Gordon,
Grandmaster Flash,
T. Rex,
Minutemen,
Essential Logic,
Bang On A Can,
Gil Scott Heron,
Slave,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arthur Verocai,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.