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 Libya and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Winnipeg.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Beau Brummels to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Iggy Pop record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Joey Negro,
June of 44,
Gregory Isaacs,
T. Rex,
Barrington Levy,
Soul II Soul,
Jeff Mills,
Youth Brigade,
Rod Modell,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gang Starr,
ABBA,
Absolute Body Control,
Josef K,
Sight & Sound,
Cecil Taylor,
Rufus Thomas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gong,
Technova,
Visage,
Black Flag,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Joe Smooth,
Fluxion,
Eric Dolphy,
Dennis Brown,
Kerri Chandler,
Thee Headcoats,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ituana,
Amon Düül,
PIL,
Carl Craig,
Prince Buster,
D'Angelo,
Radiohead,
ABC,
Oblivians,
Arcadia,
Sun Ra,
Spoonie Gee,
AZ,
MC5,
Yaz,
Pere Ubu,
Subhumans,
The Young Rascals,
Das Ding,
The Move,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Soft Cell,
Aloha Tigers,
The Searchers,
Roxette,
Tomorrow,
Chris Corsano,
The Angels of Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.