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 Croatia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 Sällskapet to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
Arab on Radar,
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang of Four,
Sister Nancy,
Marine Girls,
The Sound,
Faraquet,
Albert Ayler,
Grauzone,
Kas Product,
Aural Exciters,
Sarah Menescal,
Ken Boothe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Davy DMX,
Basic Channel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
LL Cool J,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra,
Jawbox,
DJ Style,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun City Girls,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sexual Harrassment,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Misunderstood,
Jerry's Kids,
Bronski Beat,
E-Dancer,
10cc,
kango's stein massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Minor Threat,
Interpol,
Joensuu 1685,
The Buckinghams,
In Retrospect,
The Last Poets,
Main Source,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mandrill,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pantaleimon,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.