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 Tunisia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Magazine to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sam Rivers,
Piero Umiliani,
Public Image Ltd.,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Fela Kuti,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Monks,
Silicon Teens,
Kevin Saunderson,
Prince Buster,
The Zeros,
The Pop Group,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Simply Red,
The Dave Clark Five,
Panda Bear,
The Blackbyrds,
Godley & Creme,
Dave Gahan,
Television,
Black Bananas,
D'Angelo,
Shoche,
Alphaville,
Index,
The Slackers,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Music Machine,
Hardrive,
Kerri Chandler,
E-Dancer,
Nils Olav,
Radio Birdman,
Sparks,
La Düsseldorf,
Freddie Wadling,
Buzzcocks,
Yellowson,
The Gladiators,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Infiniti,
Yusef Lateef,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Susan Cadogan,
Depeche Mode,
The Motions,
Lower 48,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
Japan,
Adolescents,
Jawbox,
James White and The Blacks,
The Martian,
The Techniques,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.