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 Italy and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 linndrum 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 Soft Machine to the rap 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angry Samoans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultra Naté,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Connie Case,
Soulsonic Force,
Sixth Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
World's Most,
Desert Stars,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Brothers Johnson,
The Slits,
Laurel Aitken,
Kerrie Biddell,
Qualms,
Anakelly,
Kenny Larkin,
Von Mondo,
the Normal,
Scion,
Yusef Lateef,
Half Japanese,
Nas,
Barclay James Harvest,
Second Layer,
Negative Approach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eurythmics,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bobby Sherman,
The Residents,
This Heat,
E-Dancer,
Faust,
Aaron Thompson,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Groovy Waters,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Piero Umiliani,
Black Sheep,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
Agent Orange,
Black Flag,
A Certain Ratio,
Massinfluence,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Selecter,
Accadde A,
The Busters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Duran Duran,
Aswad,
Wasted Youth,
Heaven 17,
DJ Style,
Television Personalities,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marvin Gaye,
Siglo XX,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.