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 Haiti and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Johnny Osbourne to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
D'Angelo,
Roger Hodgson,
Masters at Work,
New Order,
John Holt,
The Moody Blues,
Pantytec,
Easy Going,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
MDC,
Dark Day,
David McCallum,
Pierre Henry,
Fat Boys,
The Happenings,
Erasure,
Todd Terry,
The Offenders,
Sparks,
The Fuzztones,
The Blues Magoos,
Glambeats Corp.,
Neu!,
The Pop Group,
Boogie Down Productions,
H. Thieme,
Nik Kershaw,
ABBA,
Minny Pops,
Yusef Lateef,
Janne Schatter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pole,
Siglo XX,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
10cc,
Babytalk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gang Starr,
Isaac Hayes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
Essential Logic,
KRS-One,
Mandrill,
Robert Görl,
Crime,
Deepchord,
World's Most,
Soft Cell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stereo Dub,
Faraquet,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.