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 Namibia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Motorama to the electroclash 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
The Human League,
Masters at Work,
Cybotron,
X-102,
Rosa Yemen,
Isaac Hayes,
David Axelrod,
Gregory Isaacs,
Suicide,
La Düsseldorf,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sugar Minott,
Index,
Soul II Soul,
The Saints,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Junior Murvin,
Youth Brigade,
Mary Jane Girls,
Moebius,
Ludus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Slave,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grauzone,
Eurythmics,
Neu!,
Echospace,
The Gap Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Aswad,
Jandek,
Rod Modell,
Pantaleimon,
Skriet,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
AZ,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joy Division,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers,
Freddie Wadling,
Robert Görl,
Ice-T,
China Crisis,
The Kinks,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ralphi Rosario,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Sheep,
Boz Scaggs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fatback Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
X-Ray Spex,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.