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 India and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Robert Görl to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Curtis Mayfield,
Terry Callier,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Adolescents,
Mark Hollis,
The Cramps,
Trumans Water,
AZ,
Masters at Work,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gun Club,
Guru Guru,
Animal Collective,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Arab on Radar,
Blake Baxter,
The Moleskins,
Jeff Mills,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Carl Craig,
Fear,
Depeche Mode,
Subhumans,
Grey Daturas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Liliput,
This Heat,
PIL,
The Buckinghams,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kaleidoscope,
The Victims,
Robert Wyatt,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Al Stewart,
Deepchord,
Urselle,
Public Enemy,
The United States of America,
One Last Wish,
Scratch Acid,
Kerri Chandler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lungfish,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bobby Womack,
Brass Construction,
Suburban Knight,
Junior Murvin,
Alton Ellis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rekid,
Circle Jerks,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.