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 Iran and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sound Behaviour to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Nik Kershaw,
Public Image Ltd.,
X-Ray Spex,
China Crisis,
Sister Nancy,
Faraquet,
Cecil Taylor,
Loose Ends,
Joey Negro,
the Slits,
The Beau Brummels,
Rakim,
Radiopuhelimet,
Michelle Simonal,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eli Mardock,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Moon,
Massinfluence,
Parry Music,
Soul II Soul,
The Kinks,
Erykah Badu,
Das Ding,
Hardrive,
Negative Approach,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Underground Resistance,
The Monochrome Set,
Suicide,
Arab on Radar,
Pagans,
F. McDonald,
Sound Behaviour,
Oblivians,
Audionom,
Absolute Body Control,
Brass Construction,
Barclay James Harvest,
Flash Fearless,
Sarah Menescal,
The Human League,
the Sonics,
the Bar-Kays,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mission of Burma,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Section 25,
Depeche Mode,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fire Engines,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang On A Can,
The New Christs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
CMW,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.