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 Equatorial Guinea and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
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 Camberwell Now to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gang of Four. All the underground hits.
All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boz Scaggs,
L. Decosne,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Livin' Joy,
David Axelrod,
Jacques Brel,
Fugazi,
Dead Boys,
Echospace,
MDC,
The Detroit Cobras,
Matthew Bourne,
The Grass Roots,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moody Blues,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Enemy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Matthew Halsall,
Young Marble Giants,
Marcia Griffiths,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Electric Prunes,
Supertramp,
Minny Pops,
Joe Smooth,
Essential Logic,
Funky Four + One,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Copeland,
The Fortunes,
The Red Krayola,
Danielle Patucci,
Arab on Radar,
Todd Terry,
Connie Case,
Silicon Teens,
Oneida,
Neu!,
Anakelly,
Amon Düül II,
Roy Ayers,
Inner City,
Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
The Happenings,
Rotary Connection,
Henry Cow,
Qualms,
New Age Steppers,
Moebius,
X-102,
New Order,
Suicide,
Swell Maps,
New York Dolls,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.