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 Uruguay and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soul Sonic Force to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Delta 5,
Oblivians,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Zapp,
Letta Mbulu,
48th St. Collective,
The Cure,
Godley & Creme,
Sällskapet,
The Names,
Bang On A Can,
the Slits,
Camberwell Now,
World's Most,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jacob Miller,
Procol Harum,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Joey Negro,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter & Gordon,
Qualms,
Altered Images,
Agent Orange,
the Sonics,
The Gories,
Von Mondo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bill Near,
Ronnie Foster,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gap Band,
Warsaw,
Liliput,
Bronski Beat,
Cybotron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soul II Soul,
Gong,
Chris & Cosey,
Shoche,
Tres Demented,
Reuben Wilson,
the Bar-Kays,
MDC,
Eric Copeland,
Dave Gahan,
Kaleidoscope,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Isaac Hayes,
Howard Jones,
New Order,
DNA,
The Human League,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wally Richardson,
Con Funk Shun,
The Doobie Brothers,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.