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 Nigeria 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Johnny Osbourne to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Skatalites,
Porter Ricks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Niagra,
Joe Smooth,
Ohio Players,
Basic Channel,
Unwound,
Simply Red,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ultra Naté,
Prince Buster,
The Knickerbockers,
These Immortal Souls,
Matthew Bourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grey Daturas,
Alison Limerick,
Essential Logic,
The American Breed,
The Gories,
Graham Central Station,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crime,
Sparks,
Funky Four + One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sound,
Television Personalities,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Talk Talk,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sugar Minott,
Morten Harket,
Lindisfarne,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Y Pants,
Sonic Youth,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bauhaus,
Blake Baxter,
Aloha Tigers,
the Human League,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
Rosa Yemen,
48th St. Collective,
Davy DMX,
Glambeats Corp.,
FM Einheit,
Althea and Donna,
John Cale,
Unrelated Segments,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Buzzcocks,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.