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 Ethiopia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Pussy Galore to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pylon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Echospace,
The Smiths,
The Real Kids,
the Soft Cell,
Deepchord,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Don Cherry,
Avey Tare,
Roy Ayers,
The Grass Roots,
kango's stein massive,
Donald Byrd,
Cameo,
Hardrive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Traffic Nightmare,
Heaven 17,
Roxette,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground,
Grauzone,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Das Ding,
The Misunderstood,
Tommy Roe,
The Trojans,
E-Dancer,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Scion,
The Techniques,
Yusef Lateef,
Sandy B,
Deadbeat,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kaleidoscope,
Eric B and Rakim,
EPMD,
Todd Rundgren,
Silicon Teens,
Bill Near,
Dual Sessions,
Stetsasonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wasted Youth,
Gabor Szabo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Massinfluence,
Darondo,
Sex Pistols,
The Black Dice,
Oblivians,
New Age Steppers,
Stereo Dub,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.