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 Lesotho and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 Harmonia to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
LL Cool J,
The Fugs,
Cluster,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alphaville,
Kenny Larkin,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Infiniti,
Khruangbin,
Jeff Lynne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hoover,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echospace,
U.S. Maple,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mo-Dettes,
Television,
Matthew Halsall,
Guru Guru,
Nirvana,
Deadbeat,
Young Marble Giants,
The Skatalites,
T. Rex,
Eli Mardock,
Minnie Riperton,
Iggy Pop,
Black Sheep,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moby Grape,
Minutemen,
Con Funk Shun,
Sonny Sharrock,
Patti Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Andrew Hill,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Delon & Dalcan,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Spandau Ballet,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
Flipper,
Bad Manners,
Robert Görl,
Bronski Beat,
Arab on Radar,
Aural Exciters,
Marmalade,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Techniques,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.