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 Uruguay and from Edmonton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 harpsichord 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Thee Headcoats,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aaron Thompson,
Von Mondo,
Brand Nubian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
The Doors,
Moby Grape,
Masters at Work,
Jerry's Kids,
Cymande,
Rakim,
Amazonics,
cv313,
Theoretical Girls,
Malaria!,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marc Almond,
The Dirtbombs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Funky Four + One,
The Star Department,
Black Moon,
Man Parrish,
Bill Near,
Don Cherry,
Q and Not U,
The Pretty Things,
T.S.O.L.,
the Human League,
Whodini,
Lower 48,
Banda Bassotti,
The Angels of Light,
Soul II Soul,
Sight & Sound,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joy Division,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fear,
Rites of Spring,
The Saints,
Michelle Simonal,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
Blossom Toes,
Chris Corsano,
The Velvet Underground,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Reed,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Prince Buster,
Rod Modell,
Clear Light,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.