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 Slovenia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Brothers Johnson to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Chrome,
The Five Americans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The New Christs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABBA,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ludus,
Clear Light,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Little Man,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Red Krayola,
Ten City,
The Divine Comedy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Agent Orange,
Drexciya,
Peter & Gordon,
Unrelated Segments,
Mark Hollis,
Boz Scaggs,
New Order,
Newcleus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kaleidoscope,
Alphaville,
Mantronix,
The Fall,
Silicon Teens,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Monks,
The Raincoats,
Todd Terry,
Marvin Gaye,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minny Pops,
Radio Birdman,
The Trojans,
Donny Hathaway,
Delta 5,
The Young Rascals,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
One Last Wish,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skaos,
Faraquet,
Loose Ends,
Joey Negro,
Visage,
Eli Mardock,
KRS-One,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Litter,
Echospace,
The Toasters,
48th St. Collective,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.