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 Kiribati and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Peter & Gordon to the disco 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Intrusion,
New Age Steppers,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang of Four,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Malaria!,
The Gladiators,
Traffic Nightmare,
Todd Rundgren,
James White and The Blacks,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nirvana,
Motorama,
Moebius,
Suburban Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fluxion,
Easy Going,
Jacob Miller,
Barrington Levy,
Rakim,
Nick Fraelich,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Skaos,
Metal Thangz,
John Coltrane,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fall,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Sheep,
Lucky Dragons,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fugs,
UT,
Soul Sonic Force,
ABC,
Bill Wells,
Schoolly D,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Swans,
The Kinks,
Carl Craig,
Chris Corsano,
The Divine Comedy,
Althea and Donna,
the Bar-Kays,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ponytail,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Judy Mowatt,
Eli Mardock,
Nik Kershaw,
Hoover,
Boz Scaggs,
Urselle,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.