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 Ghana and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Gregory Isaacs to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Parrish 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Mills,
Alison Limerick,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grauzone,
The Count Five,
Simply Red,
Pantaleimon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Sherman,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Martian,
Johnny Clarke,
Fluxion,
Robert Hood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vainqueur,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy Collins,
Lindisfarne,
Unrelated Segments,
Ludus,
Letta Mbulu,
Sister Nancy,
The Remains,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
David Bowie,
Schoolly D,
Lucky Dragons,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fear,
Rotary Connection,
Girls At Our Best!,
Glambeats Corp.,
Barbara Tucker,
Marc Almond,
Subhumans,
Visage,
The Toasters,
Echospace,
Boz Scaggs,
The Buckinghams,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Adolescents,
Skriet,
The Selecter,
the Sonics,
Yazoo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Barry Ungar,
Dual Sessions,
D'Angelo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
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.