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 Romania and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Zeros to the jazz 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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
LL Cool J,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Avey Tare,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eddi Front,
Q65,
The Motions,
Roxy Music,
Procol Harum,
Reuben Wilson,
Rites of Spring,
Tears for Fears,
Crooked Eye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Khruangbin,
The Slits,
Visage,
The Buckinghams,
Matthew Bourne,
The Residents,
Eric Copeland,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hashim,
Public Enemy,
The American Breed,
FM Einheit,
Arthur Verocai,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The United States of America,
DJ Style,
Byron Stingily,
Niagra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronan,
Kas Product,
Susan Cadogan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joe Finger,
Scientists,
Jerry Gold Smith,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eli Mardock,
Audionom,
Glenn Branca,
The Walker Brothers,
Quantec,
Rufus Thomas,
The Doobie Brothers,
Interpol,
Mandrill,
X-Ray Spex,
Royal Trux,
Funkadelic,
Angry Samoans,
Joensuu 1685,
Alton Ellis,
Rosa Yemen,
Deadbeat,
X-102,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.