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 Palau and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 DJ Sneak to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Boogie Down Productions,
The American Breed,
Carl Craig,
Television,
In Retrospect,
Procol Harum,
Vladislav Delay,
Steve Hackett,
Dorothy Ashby,
MDC,
Lightning Bolt,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Sherman,
Peter & Gordon,
DJ Style,
Arcadia,
Glenn Branca,
Erasure,
Mars,
The Sisters of Mercy,
10cc,
Average White Band,
Fad Gadget,
Kas Product,
New Age Steppers,
Flipper,
Heaven 17,
Alice Coltrane,
The Smoke,
Supertramp,
Piero Umiliani,
Mo-Dettes,
Joyce Sims,
Scientists,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crash Course in Science,
The Human League,
Graham Central Station,
Robert Hood,
Blancmange,
Lakeside,
Minor Threat,
Aaron Thompson,
Althea and Donna,
The Count Five,
Sight & Sound,
The Fall,
The Flesh Eaters,
Fatback Band,
The Victims,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick Morgan,
Mission of Burma,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hashim,
Shoche,
The Toasters,
The Neon Judgement,
Malaria!,
Fugazi,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.