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 Azerbaijan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the grime 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pierre Henry,
Index,
Qualms,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scrapy,
Toni Rubio,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Beasts of Bourbon,
June Days,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sparks,
La Düsseldorf,
Laurel Aitken,
Ossler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Todd Terry,
Harmonia,
The Gap Band,
Crooked Eye,
Mission of Burma,
the Association,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roxy Music,
Derrick Morgan,
Youth Brigade,
Khruangbin,
Marine Girls,
The Associates,
The Stooges,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fela Kuti,
China Crisis,
Rufus Thomas,
DNA,
The Last Poets,
Archie Shepp,
The Fall,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Birthday Party,
The New Christs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Circle Jerks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Velvet Underground,
Brothers Johnson,
Faraquet,
Gichy Dan,
Newcleus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Traffic Nightmare,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.