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 Rwanda and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 clarinet 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 New Order 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Yaz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Visage,
Don Cherry,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
CMW,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Amon Düül II,
Talk Talk,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brass Construction,
David McCallum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deepchord,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oblivians,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Animal Collective,
The Index,
Trumans Water,
cv313,
Symarip,
The Black Dice,
Janne Schatter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June of 44,
June Days,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scion,
Public Enemy,
Black Bananas,
Jerry's Kids,
Ken Boothe,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Angels of Light,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cluster,
Soul II Soul,
Tomorrow,
Tom Boy,
Amazonics,
Sarah Menescal,
Swell Maps,
Mr. Review,
Dawn Penn,
Alton Ellis,
Unwound,
the Normal,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
E-Dancer,
The Monochrome Set,
Second Layer,
Radiohead,
Kenny Larkin,
Anthony Braxton,
Marc Almond,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fluxion,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.