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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Carl Craig to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultra Naté record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Basic Channel,
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
a-ha,
Sugar Minott,
Sex Pistols,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lucky Dragons,
Tears for Fears,
Pole,
Von Mondo,
Danielle Patucci,
Joey Negro,
The Cowsills,
Gang of Four,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angry Samoans,
Mars,
The Evens,
Youth Brigade,
Index,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Inner City,
The Cure,
Adolescents,
Big Daddy Kane,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Fraelich,
Ludus,
Loose Ends,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Royal Trux,
Man Parrish,
The Fortunes,
Oblivians,
Reagan Youth,
Crime,
Infiniti,
Jandek,
Morten Harket,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dark Day,
Guru Guru,
Graham Central Station,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Selecter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tom Boy,
The Searchers,
Model 500,
Ultravox,
Grey Daturas,
Television Personalities,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.