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 Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Real Kids to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Blackbyrds,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
Newcleus,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joyce Sims,
KRS-One,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ronnie Foster,
Bad Manners,
Joensuu 1685,
Scrapy,
Clear Light,
Agitation Free,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Underground Resistance,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Slave,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
E-Dancer,
Oblivians,
The Dave Clark Five,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Blancmange,
Curtis Mayfield,
Henry Cow,
Maurizio,
Carl Craig,
Porter Ricks,
Shoche,
Erasure,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mummies,
Cybotron,
Half Japanese,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Idris Muhammad,
Lalann,
Kas Product,
Maleditus Sound,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Jawbox,
Royal Trux,
Tres Demented,
Mandrill,
MC5,
Animal Collective,
JFA,
Electric Prunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Associates,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Q65,
Supertramp,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James White and The Blacks,
Saccharine Trust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.