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 Sudan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ 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 Wally Richardson to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Techniques record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Association,
Quantec,
The Gap Band,
Pierre Henry,
Q65,
Quadrant,
The Slackers,
Gong,
Underground Resistance,
ABBA,
K-Klass,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gabor Szabo,
Connie Case,
Erykah Badu,
Desert Stars,
Unrelated Segments,
Grey Daturas,
The Moleskins,
Iggy Pop,
The Modern Lovers,
Subhumans,
The Martian,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nirvana,
Slave,
the Swans,
Ponytail,
Sonny Sharrock,
Curtis Mayfield,
June of 44,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Von Mondo,
Skaos,
Alton Ellis,
Faust,
Hardrive,
Faraquet,
In Retrospect,
Crime,
Marc Almond,
Minutemen,
Bootsy Collins,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bronski Beat,
Donald Byrd,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rapeman,
F. McDonald,
The United States of America,
The Searchers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoats.
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.