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 Barbados and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Lebanon Hanover to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
Deakin,
Barrington Levy,
Eddi Front,
Todd Terry,
Flipper,
Rakim,
Massinfluence,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Angry Samoans,
Clear Light,
Donny Hathaway,
Anakelly,
Cheater Slicks,
Motorama,
Porter Ricks,
Al Stewart,
Gang Gang Dance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sandy B,
Pylon,
Drexciya,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
The Slits,
The New Christs,
EPMD,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Spoonie Gee,
Pagans,
Qualms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Blues Magoos,
Brand Nubian,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Derrick Morgan,
Agitation Free,
The Raincoats,
Absolute Body Control,
The Offenders,
Second Layer,
New Age Steppers,
The Names,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alison Limerick,
Warren Ellis,
Peter and Kerry,
Joyce Sims,
Moby Grape,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Robert Hood,
Minnie Riperton,
Outsiders,
Joe Smooth,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.