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 Oman and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 ABC to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lyres,
Ronan,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crime,
Popol Vuh,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soft Machine,
Smog,
Masters at Work,
Kerri Chandler,
Bobby Sherman,
Andrew Hill,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Surgeon,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Seeds,
Gabor Szabo,
Eden Ahbez,
Scientists,
MDC,
Depeche Mode,
Quando Quango,
Schoolly D,
The Five Americans,
Roxette,
The Busters,
Bill Near,
Deadbeat,
Sparks,
Oblivians,
kango's stein massive,
Barry Ungar,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Marmalade,
Lou Christie,
Bluetip,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Leonard Cohen,
Dave Gahan,
Glenn Branca,
Aloha Tigers,
The Trojans,
The Skatalites,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brothers Johnson,
The Kinks,
Dark Day,
Bill Wells,
The Beau Brummels,
The Leaves,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalann,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mantronix,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.