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 Syria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fluxion to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
The Golliwogs,
Deakin,
Surgeon,
Scientists,
DJ Sneak,
Dead Boys,
The Selecter,
Guru Guru,
John Coltrane,
Excepter,
Cymande,
Johnny Clarke,
PIL,
R.M.O.,
Outsiders,
Sonic Youth,
U.S. Maple,
Archie Shepp,
Talk Talk,
Trumans Water,
Dave Gahan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Essential Logic,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joyce Sims,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Electric Prunes,
Heaven 17,
Todd Terry,
The Doors,
June Days,
Television Personalities,
The Searchers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Al Stewart,
The Tremeloes,
The Standells,
Lyres,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joe Finger,
China Crisis,
Flipper,
KRS-One,
Minutemen,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ralphi Rosario,
Darondo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Donald Byrd,
Fluxion,
kango's stein massive,
Idris Muhammad,
Howard Jones,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.