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 Yemen and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
The New Christs,
Robert Görl,
Jeff Mills,
Schoolly D,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Buzzcocks,
Morten Harket,
Zero Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Traffic Nightmare,
Zapp,
Black Pus,
The Leaves,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Kinks,
Half Japanese,
Reuben Wilson,
David Axelrod,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
Echospace,
Hasil Adkins,
Erykah Badu,
Altered Images,
The Five Americans,
Judy Mowatt,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Litter,
The Zeros,
Yusef Lateef,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Moon,
Tears for Fears,
Cameo,
Bobby Byrd,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Grey Daturas,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Womack,
DJ Style,
Cluster,
Vladislav Delay,
One Last Wish,
Connie Case,
Make Up,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Shuggie Otis,
Roxette,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers,
The Monks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
K-Klass,
Hashim,
The Evens,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aural Exciters,
Con Funk Shun,
Supertramp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.