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 Russia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 DJ Style to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Half Japanese,
These Immortal Souls,
The Leaves,
Suburban Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
Inner City,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Qualms,
Roy Ayers,
AZ,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cowsills,
Spandau Ballet,
The Monks,
Japan,
The Angels of Light,
Intrusion,
The Skatalites,
Yellowson,
Donald Byrd,
Adolescents,
the Association,
The Modern Lovers,
The Walker Brothers,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rhythm & Sound,
DNA,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bush Tetras,
Icehouse,
Quantec,
Marmalade,
Amon Düül,
Ronan,
Skriet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Red Krayola,
Section 25,
Judy Mowatt,
Gil Scott Heron,
Swans,
FM Einheit,
Chris Corsano,
Panda Bear,
The Stooges,
A Flock of Seagulls,
OOIOO,
Q and Not U,
Alison Limerick,
The Vogues,
Q65,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Sugar Minott,
Main Source,
Angry Samoans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.