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 Congo and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sarah Menescal,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sex Pistols,
This Heat,
Andrew Hill,
the Human League,
Funky Four + One,
Henry Cow,
Donny Hathaway,
ABC,
Grauzone,
Procol Harum,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Foxx,
The Fire Engines,
The Offenders,
Flipper,
Kerri Chandler,
Cameo,
The Mojo Men,
Don Cherry,
Jeff Mills,
The Motions,
Matthew Bourne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Sonics,
Charles Mingus,
Grey Daturas,
Eric Copeland,
Bush Tetras,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Massinfluence,
The Blues Magoos,
Rakim,
Amon Düül,
Siglo XX,
Robert Wyatt,
Scion,
the Bar-Kays,
kango's stein massive,
Kayak,
The Toasters,
Section 25,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wolf Eyes,
Scrapy,
Junior Murvin,
Marvin Gaye,
The Golliwogs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Byron Stingily,
Avey Tare,
Delta 5,
Big Daddy Kane,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Funkadelic,
the Association,
Cymande,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.