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 Sweden and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Rakim,
Patti Smith,
The Mummies,
Jeff Mills,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alphaville,
Con Funk Shun,
Matthew Halsall,
Stiv Bators,
Procol Harum,
Barrington Levy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
Derrick May,
Pantytec,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Near,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun City Girls,
kango's stein massive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Mantronix,
The Slits,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Detroit Cobras,
Technova,
The Evens,
Delta 5,
a-ha,
Section 25,
Oneida,
Bobby Womack,
The Happenings,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Donald Byrd,
Fatback Band,
Y Pants,
Faust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soft Machine,
The Trojans,
Black Sheep,
Sight & Sound,
Bauhaus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gabor Szabo,
The Index,
Chrome,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dennis Brown,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alice Coltrane,
Black Flag,
Byron Stingily,
Althea and Donna,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.