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 Macedonia and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Be Bop Deluxe to the grunge 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The New Christs,
Moby Grape,
Grauzone,
Von Mondo,
Nils Olav,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
PIL,
Al Stewart,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gabor Szabo,
the Germs,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter and Kerry,
Arab on Radar,
Rotary Connection,
The Human League,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tomorrow,
Smog,
These Immortal Souls,
Yazoo,
X-101,
Joe Finger,
The Sound,
The Litter,
The United States of America,
Bauhaus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Eurythmics,
Dorothy Ashby,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Robert Hood,
The Beau Brummels,
Oneida,
Cameo,
Heaven 17,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Sixth Finger,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
Barrington Levy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Evens,
Derrick Morgan,
Niagra,
The Cowsills,
EPMD,
World's Most,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fire Engines,
Gang of Four,
Joy Division,
The Monks,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eddi Front,
The Zeros,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ice-T,
Bootsy Collins,
Laurel Aitken,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.