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 Eritrea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lakeside 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Tubeway Army tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Angry Samoans,
The Real Kids,
Sex Pistols,
Eric B and Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Funky Four + One,
The Zeros,
ABBA,
DJ Style,
Jeff Mills,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Severed Heads,
John Coltrane,
Outsiders,
Ornette Coleman,
Talk Talk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Velvet Underground,
Terry Callier,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eve St. Jones,
Von Mondo,
Ice-T,
The Tremeloes,
Mad Mike,
Fela Kuti,
Idris Muhammad,
Grey Daturas,
Donny Hathaway,
Sound Behaviour,
Alton Ellis,
Ultravox,
Public Enemy,
Erykah Badu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
James White and The Blacks,
Pantaleimon,
the Association,
LL Cool J,
Massinfluence,
Nik Kershaw,
Drive Like Jehu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Reagan Youth,
Juan Atkins,
Roger Hodgson,
Theoretical Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Wasted Youth,
Todd Rundgren,
The Flesh Eaters,
David McCallum,
Piero Umiliani,
Maleditus Sound,
Quantec,
Carl Craig,
Visage,
CMW,
Kaleidoscope,
Model 500,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.