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 Equatorial Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 Stetsasonic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oblivians 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alton Ellis,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kas Product,
Silicon Teens,
Darondo,
The Pretty Things,
The Remains,
Cecil Taylor,
New Order,
The Standells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Panda Bear,
The Smiths,
Wally Richardson,
The Happenings,
Nico,
La Düsseldorf,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronnie Foster,
Magazine,
Bobby Sherman,
The Moleskins,
Slick Rick,
Marvin Gaye,
Lungfish,
Anakelly,
Yaz,
Thee Headcoats,
Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rosa Yemen,
Country Teasers,
Rekid,
Los Fastidios,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lower 48,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Dirtbombs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Au Pairs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Monolake,
Accadde A,
Fear,
Erasure,
Mantronix,
Heaven 17,
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Scrapy,
The Pop Group,
Cameo,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Saints,
Symarip,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.