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 India and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! 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 a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
New Order,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jacob Miller,
Robert Görl,
The Remains,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Mantronix,
Adolescents,
Panda Bear,
Jeff Mills,
Moss Icon,
Buzzcocks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Max Romeo,
Pulsallama,
Mad Mike,
Eddi Front,
Morten Harket,
Colin Newman,
Technova,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Young Rascals,
Erasure,
Rhythm & Sound,
Althea and Donna,
Tommy Roe,
La Düsseldorf,
Letta Mbulu,
Scrapy,
OOIOO,
Drexciya,
The Smoke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Music Machine,
Archie Shepp,
Parry Music,
Rotary Connection,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chrome,
PIL,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soulsonic Force,
Andrew Hill,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
B.T. Express,
Tomorrow,
Donny Hathaway,
Vainqueur,
The Real Kids,
The Kinks,
Masters at Work,
Babytalk,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.