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 Korea South and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Portland.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Charles Mingus to the rock 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Skriet,
Grey Daturas,
Suburban Knight,
Joy Division,
The Doors,
Reuben Wilson,
Yaz,
Sexual Harrassment,
Whodini,
The Motions,
EPMD,
Amon Düül,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The J.B.'s,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Graham Central Station,
Pylon,
Niagra,
The Trojans,
Peter and Kerry,
Cheater Slicks,
Barrington Levy,
Neil Young,
Andrew Hill,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Heaven 17,
Model 500,
Terry Callier,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erykah Badu,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scientists,
The Martian,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Silicon Teens,
Ituana,
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product,
Rapeman,
The Happenings,
Fela Kuti,
Anthony Braxton,
Black Sheep,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Zapp,
Al Stewart,
Los Fastidios,
Stockholm Monsters,
Basic Channel,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Kinks,
Ludus,
Ossler,
Brick,
Crispy Ambulance,
Althea and Donna,
K-Klass,
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.