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 Kosovo and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dawn Penn to the crunk 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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
Al Stewart,
Siglo XX,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
kango's stein massive,
Zapp,
The Gap Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tres Demented,
CMW,
Fela Kuti,
MDC,
The Slits,
A Certain Ratio,
Lower 48,
X-Ray Spex,
Television,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eric Dolphy,
Altered Images,
John Cale,
Anakelly,
Sandy B,
Lakeside,
Josef K,
Infiniti,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
Jawbox,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mark Hollis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Arcadia,
Half Japanese,
In Retrospect,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deakin,
Joe Smooth,
Avey Tare,
David Bowie,
Stereo Dub,
Rosa Yemen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Metal Thangz,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Japan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Radiohead,
Das Ding,
Mantronix,
The J.B.'s,
PIL,
Subhumans,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blake Baxter,
Alton Ellis,
Kevin Saunderson,
10cc,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.