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 Tanzania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Sight & Sound to the dance 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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Second Layer,
Franke,
Roger Hodgson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Henry Cow,
KRS-One,
David McCallum,
Altered Images,
Reagan Youth,
Wolf Eyes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lalann,
Aaron Thompson,
Qualms,
The American Breed,
Outsiders,
Peter & Gordon,
Idris Muhammad,
The Index,
Lower 48,
The Modern Lovers,
Agitation Free,
Adolescents,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
Ralphi Rosario,
F. McDonald,
Public Enemy,
Eric B and Rakim,
Graham Central Station,
Whodini,
Cabaret Voltaire,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sällskapet,
Fear,
Siglo XX,
Y Pants,
The Evens,
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Clarke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bauhaus,
Blake Baxter,
The Slackers,
The Smiths,
Iggy Pop,
Sexual Harrassment,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Moon,
Depeche Mode,
Unwound,
Black Flag,
Public Image Ltd.,
Frankie Knuckles,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cybotron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.