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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Calgary.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Gang Green 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Simply Red,
The Happenings,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Names,
Marine Girls,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Black Sheep,
Siglo XX,
Terry Callier,
Dual Sessions,
Zapp,
Rotary Connection,
Deepchord,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gories,
Porter Ricks,
Animal Collective,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
The Smoke,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Guru Guru,
kango's stein massive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Amon Düül,
Lyres,
Lower 48,
Marvin Gaye,
Goldenarms,
The Tremeloes,
Babytalk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wally Richardson,
Monks,
Janne Schatter,
Crash Course in Science,
The Durutti Column,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hoover,
Mars,
Lucky Dragons,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Qualms,
Shuggie Otis,
The Grass Roots,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Knickerbockers,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.