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 China and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 AZ to the disco 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The New Christs,
Con Funk Shun,
John Cale,
Kas Product,
Roger Hodgson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minor Threat,
H. Thieme,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gladiators,
Q and Not U,
Yellowson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fuzztones,
LL Cool J,
Ken Boothe,
Nick Fraelich,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Funky Four + One,
Godley & Creme,
Derrick Morgan,
Cymande,
Chris Corsano,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wasted Youth,
Amon Düül II,
The Monks,
Cheater Slicks,
Robert Görl,
Nik Kershaw,
Joe Finger,
Unwound,
Peter & Gordon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Gap Band,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angry Samoans,
The Black Dice,
Lou Christie,
R.M.O.,
Gang Starr,
Stockholm Monsters,
Television,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
Todd Terry,
The Vogues,
Lyres,
The Associates,
Fela Kuti,
Electric Prunes,
The Buckinghams,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pylon,
The Red Krayola,
Prince Buster,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars, the Fania All-Stars.
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.