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 Dominica and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Bobby Sherman,
Surgeon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nirvana,
Delta 5,
Gang Gang Dance,
Y Pants,
The Monks,
Tubeway Army,
Chris Corsano,
The American Breed,
Donald Byrd,
Josef K,
The Beau Brummels,
Sex Pistols,
The Fortunes,
Robert Hood,
The Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Sister Nancy,
PIL,
Althea and Donna,
The Sonics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soulsonic Force,
Rufus Thomas,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeff Lynne,
Television,
Wasted Youth,
The Wake,
Gichy Dan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Leaves,
Joe Smooth,
Echospace,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Buckinghams,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Stereo Dub,
Harry Pussy,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Quantec,
Whodini,
Suicide,
Moby Grape,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Excepter,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Qualms,
Davy DMX,
The Remains,
Swans,
Fluxion,
Slave,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.