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 Seoul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 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 Sandy B to the rock 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Slits,
Mo-Dettes,
The Associates,
Althea and Donna,
Thompson Twins,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cure,
Aloha Tigers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Drive Like Jehu,
Colin Newman,
Charles Mingus,
Clear Light,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Sneak,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Soft Cell,
The Techniques,
Alton Ellis,
Pulsallama,
Kerri Chandler,
John Holt,
Khruangbin,
The Leaves,
U.S. Maple,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
Fugazi,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Toni Rubio,
Sugar Minott,
Amon Düül,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Heaven 17,
Fela Kuti,
Darondo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Absolute Body Control,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sexual Harrassment,
Porter Ricks,
Joyce Sims,
Isaac Hayes,
Wasted Youth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jerry's Kids,
ABC,
The Five Americans,
Cal Tjader,
Flash Fearless,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hot Snakes,
Al Stewart,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lee Hazlewood,
K-Klass,
Supertramp,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.