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 Senegal and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 June Days to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Essential Logic,
The Walker Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fatback Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nick Fraelich,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Count Five,
Josef K,
David Bowie,
Mandrill,
Fluxion,
Pagans,
Rekid,
Amazonics,
Sex Pistols,
Sugar Minott,
Cluster,
Barbara Tucker,
Isaac Hayes,
The Techniques,
Girls At Our Best!,
Reuben Wilson,
Danielle Patucci,
Gichy Dan,
The Golliwogs,
New York Dolls,
ABC,
Niagra,
Godley & Creme,
The Monochrome Set,
Bluetip,
AZ,
The Motions,
the Human League,
Pantaleimon,
Kerri Chandler,
The Dirtbombs,
Babytalk,
Fat Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Bobby Sherman,
Visage,
The Slits,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Moody Blues,
Eddi Front,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Accadde A,
Wally Richardson,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.