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 Armenia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Deepchord to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skaos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ossler,
Camouflage,
Ultra Naté,
Roy Ayers,
Wolf Eyes,
Anthony Braxton,
Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Mad Mike,
X-102,
Tom Boy,
Archie Shepp,
Pantytec,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Goldenarms,
The Angels of Light,
8 Eyed Spy,
Shoche,
Boz Scaggs,
Loose Ends,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
kango's stein massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
R.M.O.,
The Fuzztones,
Derrick May,
Newcleus,
Porter Ricks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Janne Schatter,
Scratch Acid,
Index,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Inner City,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-101,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hardrive,
The Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Carl Craig,
Clear Light,
Lakeside,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Popol Vuh,
Q65,
Spoonie Gee,
Technova,
Nick Fraelich,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Donald Byrd,
Brothers Johnson,
the Soft Cell,
One Last Wish,
Banda Bassotti,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.