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 South Sudan and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 LL Cool J to the rap 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed,
Carl Craig,
Zero Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ludus,
X-Ray Spex,
John Holt,
Stereo Dub,
Pharoah Sanders,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crooked Eye,
Ituana,
Anakelly,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hasil Adkins,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Toasters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bizarre Inc.,
Los Fastidios,
Janne Schatter,
Basic Channel,
China Crisis,
Nas,
Saccharine Trust,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick May,
Darondo,
The Fire Engines,
Brothers Johnson,
Delta 5,
Average White Band,
Goldenarms,
The Index,
Tom Boy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
the Normal,
The Monochrome Set,
the Association,
Don Cherry,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joe Smooth,
Inner City,
The Dead C,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
Kenny Larkin,
Ice-T,
Joy Division,
Thompson Twins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Eric Dolphy,
Eurythmics,
Half Japanese,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.