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 Azerbaijan and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tropical Tobacco to the crunk 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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?
The Happenings,
Pulsallama,
Main Source,
The Seeds,
Carl Craig,
Monolake,
Erykah Badu,
Connie Case,
Hot Snakes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
Ultra Naté,
Yazoo,
Fluxion,
Lalann,
Sonic Youth,
Scan 7,
Fela Kuti,
Alton Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
the Soft Cell,
T.S.O.L.,
Pantytec,
Barrington Levy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Interpol,
Panda Bear,
Byron Stingily,
Technova,
The Angels of Light,
Qualms,
Darondo,
Roxette,
Black Sheep,
Schoolly D,
Das Ding,
Liliput,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Tomorrow,
Tim Buckley,
Nico,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kas Product,
Terry Callier,
Babytalk,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kurtis Blow,
Metal Thangz,
Los Fastidios,
Second Layer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Shoche,
The Busters,
Brand Nubian,
Delta 5,
Mandrill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ituana,
Bad Manners,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.