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 Solomon Islands and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Philadelphia and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Main Source to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Quadrant,
Kool Moe Dee,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Anakelly,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
Sight & Sound,
the Association,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bluetip,
The American Breed,
Guru Guru,
Dead Boys,
Ultra Naté,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
The Gap Band,
Vladislav Delay,
David Bowie,
Crooked Eye,
Wolf Eyes,
The Five Americans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Easy Going,
Trumans Water,
Simply Red,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Index,
Jeff Mills,
Massinfluence,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Prince Buster,
Nick Fraelich,
Tom Boy,
Jandek,
Brass Construction,
EPMD,
Monks,
Man Parrish,
Al Stewart,
Silicon Teens,
The Selecter,
Main Source,
UT,
Joe Finger,
World's Most,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mojo Men,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Grandmaster Flash,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.