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 Peru and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harpers Bizarre to the techno 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 Oneida. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Lydon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Alton Ellis,
Yazoo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Icehouse,
Marshall Jefferson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The New Christs,
Deakin,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pole,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Section 25,
Dennis Brown,
Moby Grape,
Ludus,
The Smoke,
Circle Jerks,
Fluxion,
The Mummies,
The Slits,
Intrusion,
D'Angelo,
Camberwell Now,
Carl Craig,
The Black Dice,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sandy B,
Crime,
Slave,
The United States of America,
The J.B.'s,
Groovy Waters,
Davy DMX,
Fear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Seeds,
Gil Scott Heron,
David McCallum,
Symarip,
The Fire Engines,
Talk Talk,
the Bar-Kays,
ABC,
Joey Negro,
Cluster,
Brand Nubian,
Susan Cadogan,
Jacob Miller,
The Velvet Underground,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gregory Isaacs,
Hoover,
Danielle Patucci,
KRS-One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ossler,
Letta Mbulu,
The Dave Clark Five,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.