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 Cyprus and from Calgary.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Yazoo to the punk 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Cymande,
Khruangbin,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sex Pistols,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Al Stewart,
Soulsonic Force,
The Human League,
Archie Shepp,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Pretty Things,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
David McCallum,
Spoonie Gee,
Talk Talk,
Ultra Naté,
Ponytail,
Jandek,
Brass Construction,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ronan,
Laurel Aitken,
Organ,
Vainqueur,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rakim,
Bill Near,
Liliput,
The Misunderstood,
Sonny Sharrock,
Babytalk,
Colin Newman,
The Vogues,
The Happenings,
Susan Cadogan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Black Moon,
Index,
The Sonics,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ronnie Foster,
Fugazi,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eurythmics,
The Count Five,
Tom Boy,
Leonard Cohen,
Aswad,
Bootsy Collins,
the Germs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
MDC,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.