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 Grenada and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Velvet Underground to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Slits. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Radiohead,
Funkadelic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Amazonics,
Derrick Morgan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gerry Rafferty,
Zapp,
Negative Approach,
Todd Terry,
Howard Jones,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Supertramp,
Magma,
the Germs,
Joey Negro,
The Wake,
The Zeros,
Bill Near,
Tubeway Army,
Simply Red,
Joe Finger,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dark Day,
The Gladiators,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Rundgren,
Pantytec,
The Doors,
Hot Snakes,
Avey Tare,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Basic Channel,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Black Dice,
Chris Corsano,
Cluster,
In Retrospect,
Neu!,
Grauzone,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flash Fearless,
Loose Ends,
Yaz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Five Americans,
Bush Tetras,
U.S. Maple,
Blake Baxter,
Mantronix,
the Bar-Kays,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Shadows of Knight,
Angry Samoans,
The Cowsills,
The Fugs,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.