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 India and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Andrew Hill to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Art Ensemble Of Chicago record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Residents,
Monolake,
Hardrive,
Darondo,
the Fania All-Stars,
Reagan Youth,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Bowie,
Alphaville,
Jerry's Kids,
Swell Maps,
Bang On A Can,
Kool Moe Dee,
Peter and Kerry,
Infiniti,
Blancmange,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suicide,
Toni Rubio,
Pagans,
Donny Hathaway,
Warsaw,
Joey Negro,
Scientists,
Drive Like Jehu,
Leonard Cohen,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
La Düsseldorf,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Near,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terry Callier,
Crime,
Bad Manners,
Yaz,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wire,
Procol Harum,
Joensuu 1685,
EPMD,
Ponytail,
KRS-One,
Moebius,
Organ,
Alison Limerick,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Matthew Bourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Junior Murvin,
Blake Baxter,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.