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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Marmalade to the electroclash 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agitation Free,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Magma,
The Vogues,
the Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Grass Roots,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Harmonia,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Prunes,
The Beau Brummels,
Grauzone,
Donald Byrd,
Theoretical Girls,
Main Source,
Eric Copeland,
Johnny Clarke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Star Department,
Black Moon,
Funky Four + One,
Marcia Griffiths,
Thompson Twins,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marmalade,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Raincoats,
Cymande,
Agent Orange,
Country Teasers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cameo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Suicide,
The Seeds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Stiv Bators,
Bill Near,
Susan Cadogan,
Amon Düül,
Erasure,
CMW,
the Human League,
Tears for Fears,
Massinfluence,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gang Green,
Sex Pistols,
Pylon,
Lightning Bolt,
The Human League,
The Remains,
Roxy Music,
Cecil Taylor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Leaves,
Junior Murvin,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.