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 Kyrgyzstan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Curtis Mayfield to the punk 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell 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?
Laurel Aitken,
Spoonie Gee,
Amon Düül II,
CMW,
Yusef Lateef,
Isaac Hayes,
Lower 48,
Visage,
Little Man,
Grauzone,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Max Romeo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jandek,
Gichy Dan,
Anakelly,
Barclay James Harvest,
Massinfluence,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
Youth Brigade,
Alice Coltrane,
Schoolly D,
The Standells,
Sixth Finger,
The Raincoats,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Knickerbockers,
Eurythmics,
Au Pairs,
Tomorrow,
B.T. Express,
Pierre Henry,
John Holt,
Cheater Slicks,
Hot Snakes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
a-ha,
The Cowsills,
EPMD,
Boogie Down Productions,
Blake Baxter,
Shoche,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flamin' Groovies,
Animal Collective,
X-102,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radio Birdman,
Young Marble Giants,
Monks,
The Mojo Men,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Y Pants,
Freddie Wadling,
Agitation Free,
Nas,
John Cale,
Television Personalities,
Altered Images,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.