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 Ethiopia 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 Sun Ra to the electroclash 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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Motorama,
The Happenings,
Andrew Hill,
Television,
Sun City Girls,
Patti Smith,
The Music Machine,
The Angels of Light,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Gories,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joy Division,
D'Angelo,
Tommy Roe,
One Last Wish,
H. Thieme,
The Buckinghams,
Minnie Riperton,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Godley & Creme,
Inner City,
Franke,
Theoretical Girls,
Dark Day,
Bad Manners,
Darondo,
The Pop Group,
Lou Christie,
Grandmaster Flash,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Dirtbombs,
Minor Threat,
Tim Buckley,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Goldenarms,
Country Teasers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Infiniti,
The Toasters,
Black Sheep,
Ludus,
Brand Nubian,
Oblivians,
Fear,
Pierre Henry,
Tears for Fears,
Arthur Verocai,
Glenn Branca,
Moby Grape,
Animal Collective,
Au Pairs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Connie Case,
Duran Duran,
Joyce Sims,
Banda Bassotti,
Letta Mbulu,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.