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 Papua New Guinea and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Lou Christie to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Standells,
Eli Mardock,
Mad Mike,
Yaz,
Ronan,
Nick Fraelich,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
The Mojo Men,
Boz Scaggs,
Guru Guru,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
Tomorrow,
Absolute Body Control,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Susan Cadogan,
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Adolescents,
Faraquet,
Symarip,
Neu!,
a-ha,
The Flesh Eaters,
Al Stewart,
Iggy Pop,
Thompson Twins,
Moebius,
Amazonics,
The Last Poets,
Ultravox,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lakeside,
Malaria!,
Liliput,
Frankie Knuckles,
Smog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Stooges,
Eric B and Rakim,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
Ossler,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kas Product,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Audionom,
The Alarm Clocks,
Pantytec,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sound Behaviour,
Juan Atkins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.