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 the UAE and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 DJ Style to the techno 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Hill,
Average White Band,
Eurythmics,
The Mojo Men,
Soul II Soul,
Soft Cell,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Alphaville,
Junior Murvin,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Slick Rick,
Rapeman,
The Fire Engines,
Rod Modell,
Brothers Johnson,
The Fall,
Dennis Brown,
K-Klass,
The Golliwogs,
Altered Images,
Jesper Dahlback,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dawn Penn,
DJ Style,
Drexciya,
Laurel Aitken,
Livin' Joy,
Ludus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter and Kerry,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Japan,
Delta 5,
The New Christs,
Dark Day,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Faraquet,
Slave,
The Motions,
Dead Boys,
The Star Department,
Cybotron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Unwound,
Warsaw,
David McCallum,
The Techniques,
Letta Mbulu,
Gabor Szabo,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Sonics,
The Slackers,
Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
Erasure,
Jeff Mills,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.