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 Senegal and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radiohead to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slick Rick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Grandmaster Flash,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Durutti Column,
Dorothy Ashby,
Don Cherry,
Marshall Jefferson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Quantec,
The Motions,
Infiniti,
The Moody Blues,
The Selecter,
Patti Smith,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bootsy Collins,
A Certain Ratio,
Brass Construction,
Amon Düül II,
Jacob Miller,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Zapp,
These Immortal Souls,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eli Mardock,
Sight & Sound,
T.S.O.L.,
The New Christs,
Bang On A Can,
Neil Young,
Public Image Ltd.,
Interpol,
MDC,
The Offenders,
Henry Cow,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aaron Thompson,
Ice-T,
The Last Poets,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Leonard Cohen,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nirvana,
The Fire Engines,
FM Einheit,
Reuben Wilson,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
The Zeros,
the Association,
World's Most,
Brand Nubian,
Inner City,
Stetsasonic,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.