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 St Lucia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
The Associates,
Easy Going,
Piero Umiliani,
The Vogues,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Seeds,
Nick Fraelich,
Leonard Cohen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Unrelated Segments,
Janne Schatter,
Khruangbin,
The Modern Lovers,
Don Cherry,
K-Klass,
Ice-T,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Agitation Free,
Matthew Halsall,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brass Construction,
Negative Approach,
Kurtis Blow,
Ludus,
Kerri Chandler,
Robert Wyatt,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Thompson Twins,
The Buckinghams,
Faraquet,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fortunes,
Public Enemy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sun City Girls,
Tubeway Army,
Glambeats Corp.,
Barry Ungar,
The Pretty Things,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
James White and The Blacks,
Donald Byrd,
Sam Rivers,
Lindisfarne,
Wings,
Maurizio,
Grey Daturas,
The Martian,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yusef Lateef,
Second Layer,
The Searchers,
Cal Tjader,
Simply Red,
Colin Newman,
The Fall,
Hashim,
The Cure,
The Kinks,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.