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 Uruguay and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Heaven 17 to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fluxion,
Minor Threat,
London Community Gospel Choir,
June Days,
the Swans,
Pantytec,
Tears for Fears,
Brass Construction,
Gong,
Ponytail,
Camberwell Now,
Arthur Verocai,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Yellowson,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
Groovy Waters,
Con Funk Shun,
Bad Manners,
Mars,
Scratch Acid,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare,
Bobbi Humphrey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oblivians,
Duran Duran,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rekid,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joe Smooth,
China Crisis,
John Foxx,
Visage,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
The Young Rascals,
Audionom,
Gang Gang Dance,
Delta 5,
a-ha,
Dual Sessions,
Unwound,
Terry Callier,
Royal Trux,
Scott Walker,
Black Sheep,
10cc,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Procol Harum,
Freddie Wadling,
Donny Hathaway,
The Vogues,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Sonics,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.