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 Andorra and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime 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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hardrive,
Drexciya,
Marine Girls,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Japan,
Graham Central Station,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
Shuggie Otis,
Nik Kershaw,
Mr. Review,
Lakeside,
Television,
The Gun Club,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Misunderstood,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bob Dylan,
Yaz,
MC5,
Reuben Wilson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Q65,
Spoonie Gee,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sandy B,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Happenings,
Cymande,
Morten Harket,
The Birthday Party,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Mummies,
Maleditus Sound,
The Angels of Light,
Sparks,
Darondo,
Infiniti,
Siglo XX,
The Alarm Clocks,
Judy Mowatt,
Josef K,
Erasure,
Depeche Mode,
Connie Case,
The Music Machine,
Electric Prunes,
The J.B.'s,
Slick Rick,
Cybotron,
the Soft Cell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vainqueur,
Robert Hood,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
John Cale,
Rapeman,
Cal Tjader,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.