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 Botswana and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb 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 Connie Case to the grime 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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
The Wake,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Golliwogs,
The Cure,
Organ,
R.M.O.,
Popol Vuh,
Matthew Halsall,
Junior Murvin,
Nils Olav,
Masters at Work,
Roger Hodgson,
48th St. Collective,
China Crisis,
Desert Stars,
Dave Gahan,
E-Dancer,
Schoolly D,
Glambeats Corp.,
Heaven 17,
Moby Grape,
Prince Buster,
Ponytail,
Alphaville,
Dennis Brown,
Michelle Simonal,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eric Dolphy,
Outsiders,
World's Most,
Pharoah Sanders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Morten Harket,
Rites of Spring,
Nas,
Echospace,
Ultravox,
Gichy Dan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Avey Tare,
Black Flag,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Idris Muhammad,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The J.B.'s,
Index,
Das Ding,
The Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marvin Gaye,
Camberwell Now,
Cal Tjader,
Sound Behaviour,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.