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 Korea North and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet 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 Glambeats Corp. to the rap 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Urselle,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fatback Band,
Altered Images,
Eddi Front,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Popol Vuh,
John Cale,
Monks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
MDC,
Eli Mardock,
Johnny Clarke,
Model 500,
Pulsallama,
The Toasters,
Steve Hackett,
Camouflage,
Piero Umiliani,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soft Machine,
The Blues Magoos,
Swans,
Janne Schatter,
Vainqueur,
David Axelrod,
Television Personalities,
Pantaleimon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sight & Sound,
Flamin' Groovies,
Saccharine Trust,
Inner City,
Eric Dolphy,
Soulsonic Force,
Gong,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
Archie Shepp,
Rosa Yemen,
These Immortal Souls,
Boz Scaggs,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Technova,
Albert Ayler,
Brand Nubian,
Easy Going,
Godley & Creme,
the Association,
Agent Orange,
Public Image Ltd.,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.