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 Cyprus and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb 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 Spoonie Gee to the jazz 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Skriet,
Brass Construction,
Godley & Creme,
Babytalk,
The Pretty Things,
Leonard Cohen,
Pantytec,
The Mummies,
Mars,
The Selecter,
Roy Ayers,
Newcleus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rekid,
Popol Vuh,
John Cale,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Bourne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Don Cherry,
Gang Green,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
The Busters,
MDC,
Siglo XX,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Ten City,
Au Pairs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Anthony Braxton,
Yazoo,
T.S.O.L.,
Bill Wells,
Model 500,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
10cc,
Ponytail,
Little Man,
Aaron Thompson,
Smog,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pere Ubu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Matthew Halsall,
Dennis Brown,
Boz Scaggs,
The Golliwogs,
Angry Samoans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funky Four + One,
Roger Hodgson,
Lucky Dragons,
Warsaw,
Excepter,
X-102,
The Buckinghams,
Andrew Hill,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat, Bronski Beat.
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.