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 Guinea-Bissau and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kool Moe Dee to the electroclash 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Loose Ends,
the Germs,
Unrelated Segments,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Spandau Ballet,
Joyce Sims,
Boredoms,
Malaria!,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Franke,
The Star Department,
Schoolly D,
Wolf Eyes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gong,
Kayak,
Qualms,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nas,
AZ,
Steve Hackett,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Blossom Toes,
Junior Murvin,
Bill Near,
Cybotron,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare,
Pantaleimon,
The Cowsills,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
Infiniti,
Oneida,
Throbbing Gristle,
Essential Logic,
Sun Ra,
Underground Resistance,
The Litter,
The Blackbyrds,
Harpers Bizarre,
New York Dolls,
Faraquet,
Eric Copeland,
Kerri Chandler,
The Stooges,
Heaven 17,
Peter & Gordon,
Mark Hollis,
CMW,
The Zeros,
Letta Mbulu,
Con Funk Shun,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Neon Judgement,
Country Teasers,
Depeche Mode,
The Last Poets,
The Standells, The Standells, The Standells, The Standells.
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.