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 Kazakhstan and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
Gang Green,
Barbara Tucker,
Masters at Work,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alton Ellis,
Flipper,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Second Layer,
Technova,
Funky Four + One,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lindisfarne,
Crooked Eye,
Excepter,
The Grass Roots,
Erykah Badu,
Intrusion,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wire,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Cymande,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sam Rivers,
New Order,
H. Thieme,
48th St. Collective,
kango's stein massive,
Simply Red,
The Neon Judgement,
Toni Rubio,
Banda Bassotti,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Mills,
The Happenings,
Bobby Byrd,
Altered Images,
Dual Sessions,
the Human League,
Main Source,
Interpol,
In Retrospect,
Saccharine Trust,
Guru Guru,
Bush Tetras,
Leonard Cohen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Susan Cadogan,
Todd Terry,
Rotary Connection,
Lungfish,
Anakelly,
Chrome,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.