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 Luxembourg and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Carl Craig to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Raincoats,
Alton Ellis,
The Associates,
Moss Icon,
DJ Style,
Colin Newman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Amon Düül,
The Sound,
Dead Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kaleidoscope,
Eli Mardock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeff Mills,
Barbara Tucker,
Derrick Morgan,
The Walker Brothers,
Aloha Tigers,
Tropical Tobacco,
Niagra,
Harpers Bizarre,
Slave,
Darondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ohio Players,
Joy Division,
H. Thieme,
Tres Demented,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ralphi Rosario,
Morten Harket,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barry Ungar,
Pole,
Guru Guru,
Metal Thangz,
Spoonie Gee,
JFA,
Hashim,
Country Teasers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Max Romeo,
Brick,
The Techniques,
the Bar-Kays,
the Human League,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rufus Thomas,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eve St. Jones,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Supertramp,
Nas,
Rapeman,
Junior Murvin,
A Certain Ratio,
Davy DMX,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.