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 Fiji and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Q65 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
DJ Sneak,
La Düsseldorf,
Joyce Sims,
A Certain Ratio,
Dave Gahan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glenn Branca,
X-101,
Todd Terry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Vladislav Delay,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Main Source,
The Modern Lovers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Interpol,
MDC,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Symarip,
Neu!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Durutti Column,
Frankie Knuckles,
Massinfluence,
Underground Resistance,
Alton Ellis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Model 500,
Mantronix,
Metal Thangz,
Bill Wells,
The Invisible,
the Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Soulsonic Force,
Sällskapet,
The Young Rascals,
kango's stein massive,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Flag,
Little Man,
Blake Baxter,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marc Almond,
Tomorrow,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang Green,
John Coltrane,
Hoover,
Ronan,
a-ha,
Rotary Connection,
Soft Machine,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bob Dylan,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.