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 Uruguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Soul II Soul to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slick Rick 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
H. Thieme,
Judy Mowatt,
The Move,
Index,
Fear,
Darondo,
Electric Prunes,
Erasure,
Spandau Ballet,
Skaos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
K-Klass,
The Sound,
JFA,
EPMD,
The Moody Blues,
Public Enemy,
E-Dancer,
Technova,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pylon,
Quadrant,
Curtis Mayfield,
Clear Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Cowsills,
Aswad,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Hill,
Anthony Braxton,
Lindisfarne,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Organ,
the Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Gil Scott Heron,
Prince Buster,
Derrick Morgan,
Banda Bassotti,
Subhumans,
The Stooges,
Outsiders,
Joey Negro,
Bill Near,
China Crisis,
Crash Course in Science,
Brand Nubian,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gong,
Marine Girls,
Scan 7,
Aaron Thompson,
Intrusion,
Ronan,
Reagan Youth,
The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.
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.