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 Pakistan and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 chamberlin 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 Simply Red to the techno 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gerry Rafferty,
F. McDonald,
Drexciya,
Nick Fraelich,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mark Hollis,
The Smoke,
The Searchers,
John Foxx,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
JFA,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hashim,
The Vogues,
Yusef Lateef,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dave Gahan,
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kurtis Blow,
DJ Sneak,
Brand Nubian,
Vainqueur,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Finger,
Howard Jones,
The Last Poets,
Rotary Connection,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Echospace,
Roy Ayers,
Y Pants,
Icehouse,
Adolescents,
The Monks,
Fela Kuti,
Urselle,
Deakin,
Grauzone,
Dawn Penn,
Tom Boy,
Pantytec,
Colin Newman,
Stereo Dub,
Cheater Slicks,
Jandek,
Avey Tare,
Niagra,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Misunderstood,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.