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 Egypt and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lightning Bolt to the crunk 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Theoretical Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Robert Wyatt,
Stetsasonic,
Clear Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
Nas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Deadbeat,
Black Moon,
David Bowie,
Matthew Halsall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Agent Orange,
The Misunderstood,
Henry Cow,
John Cale,
Excepter,
Depeche Mode,
Essential Logic,
Nirvana,
Sandy B,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
E-Dancer,
Ornette Coleman,
Funky Four + One,
New Order,
Crooked Eye,
Shuggie Otis,
Mandrill,
Bobby Womack,
The Birthday Party,
The Gap Band,
The Buckinghams,
Gang of Four,
Neu!,
The Motions,
Simply Red,
Roger Hodgson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David McCallum,
Mr. Review,
Sparks,
Yusef Lateef,
Dual Sessions,
Erasure,
The Sonics,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
PIL,
Scratch Acid,
Traffic Nightmare,
Khruangbin,
Iggy Pop,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
June of 44,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Flamin' Groovies,
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.