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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pantytec to the funk 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Move,
Sällskapet,
Terry Callier,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Television Personalities,
The Young Rascals,
David Axelrod,
Skriet,
Isaac Hayes,
Anakelly,
Robert Görl,
T. Rex,
Yusef Lateef,
Albert Ayler,
Smog,
Robert Hood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lalann,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
Oblivians,
Godley & Creme,
The Sonics,
Main Source,
New Order,
Warsaw,
Soul II Soul,
Dave Gahan,
The Residents,
Magazine,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moss Icon,
Basic Channel,
Erykah Badu,
Aloha Tigers,
David Bowie,
Harmonia,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Erasure,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sight & Sound,
The Five Americans,
Donald Byrd,
Soul Sonic Force,
Yazoo,
Judy Mowatt,
The Associates,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pierre Henry,
Todd Rundgren,
Magma,
Glenn Branca,
Gabor Szabo,
The Seeds,
KRS-One,
Pere Ubu,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.