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 South Africa 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Donald Byrd to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Kevin Saunderson. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rekid 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 an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Au Pairs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
This Heat,
Symarip,
June of 44,
Junior Murvin,
Silicon Teens,
Archie Shepp,
Arthur Verocai,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Erasure,
The Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pulsallama,
Matthew Bourne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rotary Connection,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
the Bar-Kays,
Jeff Lynne,
Audionom,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shuggie Otis,
Henry Cow,
Ken Boothe,
Desert Stars,
Liliput,
In Retrospect,
the Human League,
Jawbox,
Kayak,
Donald Byrd,
The Knickerbockers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Carl Craig,
Sister Nancy,
Mars,
Duran Duran,
Faust,
Severed Heads,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
Pussy Galore,
The Human League,
Soulsonic Force,
John Lydon,
The Raincoats,
Soft Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lebanon Hanover,
Blossom Toes,
Skarface,
Adolescents,
The Smiths,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.