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 Saudi Arabia and from Columbus.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Nation of Ulysses to the punk 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 New York Dolls. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
KRS-One,
Cameo,
Marine Girls,
Y Pants,
Joe Smooth,
Animal Collective,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Trojans,
Gang Starr,
The Mummies,
Adolescents,
The Velvet Underground,
the Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Real Kids,
Lucky Dragons,
10cc,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Davy DMX,
The Fortunes,
Man Parrish,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kurtis Blow,
Reagan Youth,
The Standells,
Schoolly D,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moss Icon,
Faraquet,
The Selecter,
Scott Walker,
The Gap Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Panda Bear,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deakin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hot Snakes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Sound,
Mo-Dettes,
Khruangbin,
The Seeds,
Rosa Yemen,
Bauhaus,
Don Cherry,
Tim Buckley,
Archie Shepp,
The Smiths,
Vladislav Delay,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Axelrod,
Amon Düül II,
the Swans,
June Days,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.