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 Nauru and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mumbai.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donald Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
The Golliwogs,
Eden Ahbez,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ken Boothe,
Pet Shop Boys,
The New Christs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Index,
Soul II Soul,
Cameo,
The Fuzztones,
Subhumans,
Malaria!,
Chris & Cosey,
Zero Boys,
Quando Quango,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Sherman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Wally Richardson,
Loose Ends,
OOIOO,
Yaz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
Lakeside,
Tommy Roe,
Nico,
Jacques Brel,
The Toasters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mo-Dettes,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
China Crisis,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Holt,
The Blackbyrds,
Guru Guru,
Agent Orange,
Stetsasonic,
EPMD,
Q65,
The Cramps,
London Community Gospel Choir,
New Order,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kenny Larkin,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Amon Düül II,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Man Eating Sloth,
Maleditus Sound,
Roxette,
Marmalade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neu!,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.