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 Moldova and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Audionom to the punk 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Mad Mike,
ABC,
Michelle Simonal,
June of 44,
Marcia Griffiths,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Harmonia,
Brick,
Crime,
The Toasters,
Letta Mbulu,
Franke,
David McCallum,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pantaleimon,
Bluetip,
The Seeds,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Moleskins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cymande,
The Evens,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonic Youth,
Girls At Our Best!,
Audionom,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Slick Rick,
The Dead C,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Grauzone,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minny Pops,
Pagans,
Cluster,
the Fania All-Stars,
Popol Vuh,
Marmalade,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Beau Brummels,
Stetsasonic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Litter,
Roxette,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amazonics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Slave,
Mr. Review,
Section 25,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roy Ayers,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.