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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Eric Dolphy to the techno 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crime record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
The Misunderstood,
Essential Logic,
Peter and Kerry,
Sugar Minott,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Tremeloes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Main Source,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Heaven 17,
Gang Starr,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Connie Case,
Byron Stingily,
Amon Düül,
Traffic Nightmare,
Angry Samoans,
Brand Nubian,
Blossom Toes,
Audionom,
Jeff Lynne,
Scion,
Bobby Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Grass Roots,
Brass Construction,
The Flesh Eaters,
Anthony Braxton,
In Retrospect,
The Durutti Column,
Robert Hood,
The Associates,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tomorrow,
Little Man,
Index,
The Raincoats,
Gong,
The Mummies,
Yazoo,
The Leaves,
Barclay James Harvest,
Los Fastidios,
Livin' Joy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soft Machine,
The Vogues,
Lindisfarne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grauzone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Monks,
The Smoke,
Fela Kuti,
Average White Band,
Man Parrish,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Happenings,
Electric Prunes,
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.