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 Guinea-Bissau and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 DJ Sneak 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mantronix,
Loose Ends,
Minny Pops,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Invisible,
EPMD,
This Heat,
John Cale,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Chrome,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ronnie Foster,
Scratch Acid,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marmalade,
The Evens,
The Kinks,
The Martian,
Skaos,
Mars,
Adolescents,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Absolute Body Control,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Shuggie Otis,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Judy Mowatt,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Real Kids,
The Fugs,
Tim Buckley,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eric B and Rakim,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Cluster,
Ponytail,
The Beau Brummels,
Danielle Patucci,
Joe Smooth,
Massinfluence,
Subhumans,
Jacob Miller,
Donny Hathaway,
Make Up,
Sam Rivers,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
JFA,
Ituana,
The Mummies,
Livin' Joy,
K-Klass,
Janne Schatter,
Television Personalities,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stetsasonic,
Sällskapet,
Alison Limerick,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.