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 Oman and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Lou Reed 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 Echospace to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alton Ellis,
Soulsonic Force,
Yusef Lateef,
Jesper Dahlback,
kango's stein massive,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
Qualms,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alice Coltrane,
Archie Shepp,
Pussy Galore,
E-Dancer,
Sexual Harrassment,
Trumans Water,
JFA,
Young Marble Giants,
Essential Logic,
Shoche,
Adolescents,
The Techniques,
Curtis Mayfield,
Radiopuhelimet,
In Retrospect,
The Zeros,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sun Ra,
Unwound,
Faust,
Excepter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jacques Brel,
Liliput,
Ice-T,
Animal Collective,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brass Construction,
Second Layer,
Tres Demented,
Chris & Cosey,
The Durutti Column,
Laurel Aitken,
Radio Birdman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
New Order,
The Residents,
Roxy Music,
Electric Prunes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ohio Players,
Smog,
Country Teasers,
Fat Boys,
LL Cool J,
The Buckinghams,
The Gories,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.