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 Sudan and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 J.B.'s to the rock 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Erasure,
Todd Terry,
Faraquet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sam Rivers,
Prince Buster,
The Star Department,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Q and Not U,
B.T. Express,
Delta 5,
Japan,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hasil Adkins,
Anthony Braxton,
Fatback Band,
Electric Prunes,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Stooges,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Evens,
The Toasters,
Technova,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
June Days,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nik Kershaw,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang Green,
Jacob Miller,
The J.B.'s,
X-102,
Rites of Spring,
The Pretty Things,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
X-101,
Half Japanese,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Derrick Morgan,
Donny Hathaway,
The Smoke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Move,
Quadrant,
Godley & Creme,
Fear,
China Crisis,
Supertramp,
Eve St. Jones,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
UT,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.