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 Niger and from Manila.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Essential Logic to the rock 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk 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 grime 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Sound Behaviour,
Pole,
Suicide,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Make Up,
Clear Light,
Oblivians,
Saccharine Trust,
Scott Walker,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Intrusion,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Sun City Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
Monks,
Lou Christie,
Qualms,
Moss Icon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
This Heat,
Essential Logic,
June Days,
Scan 7,
Moby Grape,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Von Mondo,
Animal Collective,
Ituana,
Marvin Gaye,
Vladislav Delay,
PIL,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Davy DMX,
Carl Craig,
MC5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Q and Not U,
Black Sheep,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jesper Dahlback,
Radio Birdman,
Rosa Yemen,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
Easy Going,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-102,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
U.S. Maple,
Mission of Burma,
Darondo,
The Toasters,
Jacques Brel,
The Stooges,
Black Pus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.