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 Moldova and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 808 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 U.S. Maple to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deepchord,
Smog,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Coltrane,
The Monks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Crash Course in Science,
The Walker Brothers,
Maurizio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Youth Brigade,
Ken Boothe,
Bush Tetras,
Ultravox,
Sexual Harrassment,
Second Layer,
the Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Flash Fearless,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Matthew Halsall,
Darondo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brass Construction,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hot Snakes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Josef K,
Graham Central Station,
Mars,
Minnie Riperton,
The Leaves,
Pere Ubu,
Morten Harket,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Main Source,
Banda Bassotti,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T. Rex,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minutemen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Misunderstood,
Dawn Penn,
Stiv Bators,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Doobie Brothers,
Silicon Teens,
Peter & Gordon,
World's Most,
The Zeros,
Thompson Twins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dennis Brown,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.