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 Suriname and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Tehran and Manila.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 DJ Style to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare 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 linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lalo Schifrin,
Skaos,
The Cure,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
F. McDonald,
Aswad,
The Litter,
Reagan Youth,
New Order,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Minutemen,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Lydon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Görl,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Cale,
Funky Four + One,
CMW,
Hardrive,
The Beau Brummels,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Victims,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Searchers,
John Coltrane,
Max Romeo,
Amon Düül,
Duran Duran,
Barbara Tucker,
Letta Mbulu,
Danielle Patucci,
the Association,
Smog,
EPMD,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Eden Ahbez,
Tommy Roe,
Infiniti,
Jeff Mills,
Depeche Mode,
Brothers Johnson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Stooges,
Lakeside,
Neu!,
Quantec,
Kas Product,
Scientists,
Silicon Teens,
The Slits,
Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté, Ultra Naté.
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.