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 Belgium and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Monolake to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Tremeloes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Trojans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Unrelated Segments,
Skarface,
The Neon Judgement,
X-102,
Quadrant,
Sister Nancy,
the Normal,
David Axelrod,
June of 44,
Derrick Morgan,
Marc Almond,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Toni Rubio,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Searchers,
Letta Mbulu,
Ornette Coleman,
Theoretical Girls,
Rod Modell,
Camouflage,
Blossom Toes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Zero Boys,
The Cure,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fear,
Nick Fraelich,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monochrome Set,
The Blues Magoos,
Franke,
Aswad,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Todd Terry,
Crispian St. Peters,
The United States of America,
Magma,
The Names,
Saccharine Trust,
The Knickerbockers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cameo,
Black Sheep,
The Leaves,
Harpers Bizarre,
Archie Shepp,
Piero Umiliani,
Althea and Donna,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lalann,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Heaven 17,
Hasil Adkins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Masters at Work,
Ossler,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.