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 Ecuador and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pulsallama to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Los Fastidios,
Mark Hollis,
Radiohead,
The Skatalites,
Aswad,
Nick Fraelich,
Sound Behaviour,
Rapeman,
Ice-T,
John Cale,
The Mighty Diamonds,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joensuu 1685,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funkadelic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Sheep,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Music Machine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gang of Four,
Con Funk Shun,
Fad Gadget,
Tomorrow,
Marc Almond,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Porter Ricks,
The Techniques,
Radio Birdman,
KRS-One,
Yazoo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tubeway Army,
Flash Fearless,
Bizarre Inc.,
Alton Ellis,
Toni Rubio,
The Cure,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Marmalade,
Joyce Sims,
Massinfluence,
Amon Düül II,
MC5,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
Danielle Patucci,
The Stooges,
Little Man,
Rosa Yemen,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The United States of America,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.