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 Angola and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 harpsichord 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 Gang Green to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Jeru the Damaja,
Faust,
The Doors,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scientists,
The Techniques,
Lee Hazlewood,
Intrusion,
Magma,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stereo Dub,
Make Up,
Mars,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sällskapet,
Camouflage,
PIL,
Wasted Youth,
Guru Guru,
Alton Ellis,
The Busters,
Angry Samoans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Todd Rundgren,
Black Moon,
Arcadia,
Byron Stingily,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skarface,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Detroit Cobras,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Morten Harket,
48th St. Collective,
EPMD,
Lindisfarne,
Qualms,
Minnie Riperton,
Sister Nancy,
Vladislav Delay,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Freddie Wadling,
The J.B.'s,
Ultravox,
Bush Tetras,
Scan 7,
Negative Approach,
Wally Richardson,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ornette Coleman,
Agitation Free,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.