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 Cuba and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 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 June Days to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dirtbombs. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Last Poets,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sandy B,
Eric Copeland,
The Buckinghams,
F. McDonald,
Youth Brigade,
Groovy Waters,
Eve St. Jones,
Tubeway Army,
Whodini,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Erykah Badu,
Los Fastidios,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Loose Ends,
Make Up,
Graham Central Station,
Magazine,
The Searchers,
Animal Collective,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lungfish,
Adolescents,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Toni Rubio,
Scratch Acid,
Scrapy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ice-T,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fortunes,
Joensuu 1685,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rapeman,
The Dirtbombs,
Kenny Larkin,
Minnie Riperton,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gong,
The Cure,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mad Mike,
Visage,
Judy Mowatt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joey Negro,
Underground Resistance,
Carl Craig,
48th St. Collective,
Pulsallama,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.