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 San Marino and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Kas Product,
Piero Umiliani,
Gerry Rafferty,
Outsiders,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Peter and Kerry,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Goldenarms,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Misunderstood,
ABC,
Vainqueur,
Zapp,
The Busters,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yellowson,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sun Ra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scan 7,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Associates,
Sun City Girls,
World's Most,
B.T. Express,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
June Days,
Gichy Dan,
Warsaw,
Robert Hood,
Dennis Brown,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Knickerbockers,
Alison Limerick,
Nik Kershaw,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Selecter,
H. Thieme,
Icehouse,
Magma,
Das Ding,
The Evens,
Joy Division,
Sound Behaviour,
The Leaves,
The Count Five,
Metal Thangz,
Rakim,
Silicon Teens,
Anthony Braxton,
Urselle,
Franke,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.