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 Uganda and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Grandmaster Flash to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Associates. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Martian,
Soulsonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scientists,
World's Most,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ultra Naté,
Can,
Jacob Miller,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
Michelle Simonal,
The Busters,
Lightning Bolt,
Crooked Eye,
The Dead C,
the Bar-Kays,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pussy Galore,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Junior Murvin,
FM Einheit,
Big Daddy Kane,
Faraquet,
Dawn Penn,
The Blues Magoos,
Pet Shop Boys,
A Certain Ratio,
Dennis Brown,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
La Düsseldorf,
The Happenings,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sarah Menescal,
Godley & Creme,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Siglo XX,
Marvin Gaye,
L. Decosne,
Roxy Music,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eve St. Jones,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Iggy Pop,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Christie,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Josef K,
Neil Young,
Jandek,
Jerry's Kids,
This Heat,
Ohio Players,
Newcleus,
Spoonie Gee,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alton Ellis,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.