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 Dominican Republic and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Funky Four + One to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
The Evens,
Stetsasonic,
Yazoo,
Can,
Fluxion,
Nick Fraelich,
Yusef Lateef,
The Five Americans,
The Toasters,
The Sound,
Pylon,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Fuzztones,
Heaven 17,
H. Thieme,
Marine Girls,
Wings,
Vladislav Delay,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Hot Snakes,
Arab on Radar,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pantaleimon,
Janne Schatter,
Beasts of Bourbon,
10cc,
Idris Muhammad,
Talk Talk,
Swell Maps,
Icehouse,
Boredoms,
Gil Scott Heron,
Carl Craig,
The United States of America,
Susan Cadogan,
Con Funk Shun,
Television,
Soft Machine,
Buzzcocks,
LL Cool J,
Marmalade,
The Cramps,
The Selecter,
Fad Gadget,
Darondo,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Soulsonic Force,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alison Limerick,
Suburban Knight,
Siglo XX,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Grass Roots,
Hoover,
E-Dancer,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skaos,
Davy DMX,
Young Marble Giants,
Sound Behaviour,
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.