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 Brazil and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Warren Ellis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Judy Mowatt 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sister Nancy,
Pylon,
Rhythm & Sound,
June Days,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mo-Dettes,
The Music Machine,
Malaria!,
Erykah Badu,
Newcleus,
Black Bananas,
the Soft Cell,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Angels of Light,
Ponytail,
Underground Resistance,
Skriet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Neon Judgement,
Soul II Soul,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Inner City,
The Velvet Underground,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gichy Dan,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Delta 5,
The Fortunes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sonic Youth,
Vladislav Delay,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bootsy Collins,
Amazonics,
Bronski Beat,
Janne Schatter,
La Düsseldorf,
The Five Americans,
Blake Baxter,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Q and Not U,
Juan Atkins,
The Last Poets,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blancmange,
Junior Murvin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.