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 Brunei and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the rock 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Ronnie Foster,
Thompson Twins,
The Divine Comedy,
The Detroit Cobras,
ABC,
Talk Talk,
Black Bananas,
Brick,
Vladislav Delay,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Darondo,
Animal Collective,
Motorama,
Eric Dolphy,
Little Man,
Blossom Toes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Glambeats Corp.,
Aswad,
L. Decosne,
Adolescents,
The Walker Brothers,
Ronan,
Grauzone,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Matthew Halsall,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Althea and Donna,
Flipper,
Kaleidoscope,
The Blackbyrds,
T.S.O.L.,
Mark Hollis,
Tomorrow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sound Behaviour,
Public Enemy,
Dual Sessions,
The Mojo Men,
Soft Machine,
Bush Tetras,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Johnny Clarke,
Neil Young,
Sällskapet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Japan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joe Finger,
Connie Case,
Boredoms,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Real Kids,
cv313,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.