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 Qatar and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Camberwell Now to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet 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 sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
The Durutti Column,
Neu!,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Quando Quango,
Curtis Mayfield,
Roy Ayers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Sam Rivers,
Bill Near,
Graham Central Station,
Todd Rundgren,
Janne Schatter,
MC5,
Scion,
Alphaville,
Aural Exciters,
Matthew Halsall,
Visage,
Can,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bluetip,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Max Romeo,
Arab on Radar,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mars,
Matthew Bourne,
June of 44,
Roxette,
Nirvana,
The Leaves,
Mr. Review,
Robert Hood,
Warren Ellis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Arthur Verocai,
Erykah Badu,
Ronan,
Talk Talk,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Lydon,
Letta Mbulu,
Robert Wyatt,
Scott Walker,
David Bowie,
The Angels of Light,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pole,
Hasil Adkins,
Public Enemy,
Johnny Clarke,
Isaac Hayes,
Make Up,
Wally Richardson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nils Olav,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.