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 Poland and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 the Sonics to the punk 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donald Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Association,
KRS-One,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Audionom,
The Evens,
L. Decosne,
Connie Case,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bill Wells,
The Blues Magoos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scratch Acid,
Surgeon,
Scrapy,
Alice Coltrane,
Talk Talk,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bauhaus,
Flash Fearless,
Joe Finger,
The Wake,
The Dead C,
Supertramp,
Crime,
Yazoo,
The Dirtbombs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Donald Byrd,
Hasil Adkins,
Camouflage,
The United States of America,
The Smiths,
The Misunderstood,
Matthew Bourne,
Marine Girls,
Rapeman,
Metal Thangz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Q and Not U,
Eve St. Jones,
Echospace,
Quadrant,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Yellowson,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Barracudas,
Jerry's Kids,
Nils Olav,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Monks,
Tom Boy,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.