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 Lucia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 DJ Sneak to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '70s.
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 the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Sandy B,
The Black Dice,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Qualms,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ludus,
The Slackers,
Faust,
Fugazi,
The J.B.'s,
Kaleidoscope,
Radiohead,
Brass Construction,
Inner City,
Joensuu 1685,
The Evens,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Porter Ricks,
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Bobby Sherman,
Negative Approach,
Animal Collective,
The Human League,
Gang of Four,
Quadrant,
Terrestrial Tones,
Mandrill,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Moby Grape,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yazoo,
The Offenders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Intrusion,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kas Product,
Fluxion,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Model 500,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fall,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Girls At Our Best!,
Unrelated Segments,
Zapp,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Niagra,
Sugar Minott,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ten City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Magma,
LL Cool J,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.