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 Ethiopia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Grandmaster Flash to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Anthony Braxton,
The Buckinghams,
The Fortunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Knickerbockers,
The Pretty Things,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gichy Dan,
Lucky Dragons,
MDC,
FM Einheit,
Sugar Minott,
Yaz,
New Age Steppers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Danielle Patucci,
Spandau Ballet,
The Divine Comedy,
The Victims,
Zapp,
Rapeman,
Inner City,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Iggy Pop,
Sound Behaviour,
Deakin,
Pulsallama,
Lyres,
Soft Machine,
Roxy Music,
Ituana,
Bill Wells,
Lightning Bolt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gun Club,
Slick Rick,
Minnie Riperton,
Derrick May,
Gabor Szabo,
The Kinks,
Deadbeat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Silicon Teens,
Flipper,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ten City,
Tom Boy,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Harmonia,
Kurtis Blow,
The Five Americans,
Hashim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
China Crisis,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.