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 Laos and from London.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Monks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gabor Szabo,
Angry Samoans,
The Pop Group,
Gang Green,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joe Smooth,
Howard Jones,
Johnny Clarke,
Nirvana,
The Music Machine,
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
June Days,
Intrusion,
The Skatalites,
Danielle Patucci,
New Order,
The Victims,
The Vogues,
The Cowsills,
The Evens,
The Martian,
Jeff Lynne,
Dave Gahan,
The Black Dice,
Grey Daturas,
Bill Near,
World's Most,
UT,
Darondo,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minny Pops,
Minutemen,
The Litter,
China Crisis,
Neu!,
Babytalk,
Rites of Spring,
Ronnie Foster,
The Beau Brummels,
Suburban Knight,
The Fortunes,
Ludus,
Cheater Slicks,
The Move,
Cameo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Erykah Badu,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Happenings,
Dead Boys,
Bob Dylan,
Yusef Lateef,
Faraquet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.