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 Solomon Islands and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marshall Jefferson to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yusef Lateef 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Minny Pops,
Sex Pistols,
Young Marble Giants,
Hot Snakes,
The Trojans,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crash Course in Science,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Von Mondo,
Josef K,
Derrick Morgan,
EPMD,
Danielle Patucci,
Byron Stingily,
David McCallum,
L. Decosne,
Erykah Badu,
Aloha Tigers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
Wings,
Tears for Fears,
Soft Machine,
Nik Kershaw,
Thee Headcoats,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eli Mardock,
Hardrive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gang Green,
Barrington Levy,
Fatback Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Franke,
the Fania All-Stars,
Chris Corsano,
Gang of Four,
World's Most,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soul II Soul,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Görl,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marvin Gaye,
The Selecter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker,
Eden Ahbez,
The Tremeloes,
DJ Sneak,
Susan Cadogan,
The Moody Blues,
Ponytail,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
The Wake,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Henry Cow,
The Fugs,
The Offenders,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.