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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Magma to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mantronix,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Moon,
FM Einheit,
Anakelly,
Spandau Ballet,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Magazine,
Fatback Band,
Agent Orange,
Severed Heads,
Television,
A Certain Ratio,
Kurtis Blow,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Busters,
Altered Images,
Section 25,
Moss Icon,
Ten City,
Marmalade,
Au Pairs,
Soft Machine,
Chris Corsano,
Qualms,
The Alarm Clocks,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tommy Roe,
CMW,
Colin Newman,
Idris Muhammad,
Pulsallama,
Vladislav Delay,
The Zeros,
Faraquet,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Martian,
Todd Rundgren,
Davy DMX,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Leaves,
The Durutti Column,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Peter and Kerry,
Gong,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Parry Music,
Eddi Front,
Danielle Patucci,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roxy Music,
The Grass Roots,
Ludus,
Alton Ellis,
X-101,
Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott, Sugar Minott.
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.