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 Romania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Shuggie Otis to the grime 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Grauzone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Can,
Man Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Nik Kershaw,
Magazine,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Blues Magoos,
Nas,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra,
The Misunderstood,
Ituana,
Index,
Outsiders,
Quando Quango,
ABBA,
The Fuzztones,
Masters at Work,
Rites of Spring,
F. McDonald,
Cameo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Excepter,
Joey Negro,
The Selecter,
Delta 5,
Crime,
The Moleskins,
Tomorrow,
Mad Mike,
Archie Shepp,
Kenny Larkin,
Saccharine Trust,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Skarface,
Newcleus,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Starr,
Rapeman,
Mr. Review,
Cymande,
Technova,
Darondo,
Angry Samoans,
Supertramp,
Negative Approach,
Sound Behaviour,
Marc Almond,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hasil Adkins,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Avey Tare,
48th St. Collective,
Neu!,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.