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 Malta and from Toronto.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities 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 dance 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Fania All-Stars,
Malaria!,
The Skatalites,
Eurythmics,
Thompson Twins,
Kerri Chandler,
Maurizio,
Spandau Ballet,
Skaos,
Siglo XX,
Blancmange,
Sällskapet,
Unwound,
The Durutti Column,
Barrington Levy,
Crime,
The Detroit Cobras,
LL Cool J,
Schoolly D,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Isaac Hayes,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Big Daddy Kane,
Circle Jerks,
The Monochrome Set,
Quadrant,
The Dirtbombs,
Funkadelic,
ABC,
John Coltrane,
Lucky Dragons,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Index,
JFA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camberwell Now,
Visage,
Bang On A Can,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yaz,
Arthur Verocai,
Nik Kershaw,
Blake Baxter,
Guru Guru,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eve St. Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Massinfluence,
Underground Resistance,
Shoche,
The Gories,
Royal Trux,
Gregory Isaacs,
Public Enemy,
Black Flag,
X-101,
Sex Pistols,
Pantytec,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.