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 Barbados and from Columbus.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 10cc to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris & Cosey record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Deadbeat,
Black Pus,
Surgeon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rotary Connection,
Crispy Ambulance,
Magma,
The Gap Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Modern Lovers,
Eden Ahbez,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Icehouse,
The Evens,
The Searchers,
Tommy Roe,
Althea and Donna,
Marvin Gaye,
Subhumans,
Heaven 17,
Pere Ubu,
Dorothy Ashby,
MC5,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Soft Machine,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Flag,
The Mummies,
China Crisis,
The Techniques,
a-ha,
Gil Scott Heron,
Robert Görl,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef,
Dawn Penn,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scientists,
Sixth Finger,
Fat Boys,
Maurizio,
Todd Terry,
Crash Course in Science,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fall,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Cluster,
Stereo Dub,
Pylon,
Don Cherry,
Grauzone,
Bob Dylan,
The Wake,
Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic, Selector Dub Narcotic.
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.