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 Turkey and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Sound Behaviour to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Siglo XX,
Liliput,
Grey Daturas,
Sex Pistols,
Harmonia,
a-ha,
The Toasters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fire Engines,
Scan 7,
The Fall,
Smog,
The Blackbyrds,
Fad Gadget,
The Gap Band,
Simply Red,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Human League,
Half Japanese,
X-102,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bobby Byrd,
Kerri Chandler,
Crispian St. Peters,
Section 25,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aloha Tigers,
Thompson Twins,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Accadde A,
Camouflage,
Sun City Girls,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Josef K,
Ten City,
Camberwell Now,
Sight & Sound,
Fatback Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Q65,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Human League,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
LL Cool J,
The Golliwogs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.