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 Gambia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Glasgow.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Skaos to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Eden Ahbez,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Skatalites,
Scan 7,
ABC,
Fear,
Ossler,
Niagra,
The Wake,
Blake Baxter,
The Blackbyrds,
Newcleus,
DJ Style,
Pet Shop Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Wolf Eyes,
The Moody Blues,
Tim Buckley,
Judy Mowatt,
Davy DMX,
Shoche,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed,
ABBA,
The J.B.'s,
Yazoo,
Young Marble Giants,
Nik Kershaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
X-101,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gang of Four,
Icehouse,
Todd Rundgren,
The Real Kids,
JFA,
Mo-Dettes,
Pantaleimon,
Roger Hodgson,
Jandek,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
This Heat,
Flash Fearless,
Wasted Youth,
The Young Rascals,
The Names,
DJ Sneak,
Duran Duran,
Wings,
Roxy Music,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nico,
Echospace,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Sheep,
Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig, Carl Craig.
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.