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 Vietnam and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric B and Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
Letta Mbulu,
Agitation Free,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed,
Wasted Youth,
Pantaleimon,
Circle Jerks,
Ice-T,
Nas,
10cc,
Blake Baxter,
Cluster,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Fugs,
Sonic Youth,
Harmonia,
E-Dancer,
Ossler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dennis Brown,
Eve St. Jones,
Yaz,
T.S.O.L.,
Hasil Adkins,
Toni Rubio,
Stockholm Monsters,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris Corsano,
The Human League,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Doors,
Technova,
Maleditus Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Neon Judgement,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Suicide,
Camouflage,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Connie Case,
Kerrie Biddell,
Arthur Verocai,
Roxette,
Todd Terry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Black Moon,
The Black Dice,
Boz Scaggs,
Hardrive,
Moby Grape,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.