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 Brunei and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
The Slackers,
Massinfluence,
Moss Icon,
Carl Craig,
Basic Channel,
Negative Approach,
Pole,
Franke,
Supertramp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
Drexciya,
Altered Images,
Amazonics,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
Lightning Bolt,
Bad Manners,
Matthew Halsall,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Crispy Ambulance,
Magazine,
Technova,
Pharoah Sanders,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Zero Boys,
The Gap Band,
Joe Smooth,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye,
FM Einheit,
Donny Hathaway,
Gastr Del Sol,
Skarface,
Public Enemy,
cv313,
PIL,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Colin Newman,
Harmonia,
the Bar-Kays,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake,
Brand Nubian,
Leonard Cohen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mr. Review,
Avey Tare,
Marmalade,
E-Dancer,
Judy Mowatt,
Skriet,
Essential Logic,
Model 500,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.