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 China and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Marshall Jefferson to the jazz 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cowsills,
Derrick Morgan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Absolute Body Control,
The Selecter,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Arthur Verocai,
Dark Day,
Buzzcocks,
KRS-One,
Sun City Girls,
Technova,
The Tremeloes,
New Age Steppers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Johnny Clarke,
Babytalk,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Little Man,
Simply Red,
Country Teasers,
Khruangbin,
Sällskapet,
The Pretty Things,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Vainqueur,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dead Boys,
The Mummies,
Curtis Mayfield,
Spoonie Gee,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp,
Henry Cow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ituana,
Camouflage,
Bizarre Inc.,
Chrome,
U.S. Maple,
Audionom,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gichy Dan,
Pole,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Derrick May,
The Gap Band,
Fad Gadget,
Sixth Finger,
Connie Case,
Letta Mbulu,
OOIOO,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.