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 Japan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Donald Fagen 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 Cal Tjader to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '70s 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 Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Kayak,
Kenny Larkin,
Panda Bear,
Moss Icon,
The Moleskins,
Soft Machine,
Fad Gadget,
The Golliwogs,
Janne Schatter,
Pylon,
Sun City Girls,
Smog,
Whodini,
Don Cherry,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
La Düsseldorf,
Lou Reed,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lyres,
The Cramps,
Franke,
Flash Fearless,
The Tremeloes,
Soul II Soul,
Technova,
Reuben Wilson,
World's Most,
The Offenders,
Moebius,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radio Birdman,
The Star Department,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Boredoms,
Idris Muhammad,
Minnie Riperton,
Gang Green,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Human League,
MC5,
Ituana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
Bang On A Can,
Jeff Mills,
Marine Girls,
The Skatalites,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scratch Acid,
Lalo Schifrin,
Brand Nubian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Curtis Mayfield,
The New Christs,
Stetsasonic,
R.M.O.,
Gichy Dan,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.