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 Greece and from Taipei.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 The Vogues to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
EPMD,
Urselle,
Section 25,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Scott Walker,
Steve Hackett,
Boz Scaggs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Loose Ends,
Sarah Menescal,
Alice Coltrane,
Rod Modell,
The Stooges,
Carl Craig,
Von Mondo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Womack,
Make Up,
Tres Demented,
Black Flag,
Lebanon Hanover,
Frankie Knuckles,
Maleditus Sound,
The Motions,
Sun City Girls,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Sugar Minott,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ralphi Rosario,
Q65,
Lou Christie,
Nas,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pantytec,
Electric Prunes,
Black Pus,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Funkadelic,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
One Last Wish,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
The Toasters,
The Monochrome Set,
Ken Boothe,
The Searchers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Oneida,
Malaria!,
Reuben Wilson,
Skaos,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.