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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Mary Jane Girls 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pulsallama,
Urselle,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Hill,
La Düsseldorf,
Cecil Taylor,
Duran Duran,
Delon & Dalcan,
Khruangbin,
Joey Negro,
Metal Thangz,
Stiv Bators,
Ice-T,
Roger Hodgson,
Echospace,
Flipper,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DJ Sneak,
Vladislav Delay,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
the Normal,
Masters at Work,
The Monks,
Negative Approach,
Toni Rubio,
Hoover,
Subhumans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bobby Byrd,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Electric Prunes,
Bill Wells,
The Kinks,
The Smoke,
Gang Starr,
Black Pus,
Oneida,
L. Decosne,
The Human League,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spoonie Gee,
Charles Mingus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Altered Images,
Radiopuhelimet,
Das Ding,
David Axelrod,
Soul II Soul,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Techniques,
Laurel Aitken,
Eyeless In Gaza,
MC5,
Ronnie Foster,
Cheater Slicks,
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.