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 Vietnam and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Toni Rubio,
Grandmaster Flash,
Youth Brigade,
A Certain Ratio,
Cheater Slicks,
Judy Mowatt,
Neil Young,
Bobby Sherman,
Oneida,
Monks,
Archie Shepp,
The Count Five,
The Fire Engines,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Metal Thangz,
Minor Threat,
Jandek,
Mars,
The Red Krayola,
Zapp,
Barry Ungar,
Vainqueur,
Rosa Yemen,
Roger Hodgson,
Outsiders,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
Eric Dolphy,
Technova,
Matthew Bourne,
James White and The Blacks,
Sam Rivers,
B.T. Express,
Sixth Finger,
Brass Construction,
Sound Behaviour,
Moby Grape,
EPMD,
Isaac Hayes,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Blackbyrds,
Aswad,
Carl Craig,
LL Cool J,
Excepter,
The Remains,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
Rotary Connection,
Sister Nancy,
Kurtis Blow,
Derrick May,
The Durutti Column,
Glambeats Corp.,
Hot Snakes,
Rakim,
Faraquet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lalann,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.