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 Maldives and from Delhi.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Joey Negro,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Real Kids,
the Bar-Kays,
Davy DMX,
Talk Talk,
Lucky Dragons,
The Five Americans,
Drexciya,
The Gladiators,
Ten City,
Rotary Connection,
Au Pairs,
Fear,
Sixth Finger,
Jerry's Kids,
Sarah Menescal,
China Crisis,
Depeche Mode,
Q and Not U,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Red Krayola,
The Monochrome Set,
Bizarre Inc.,
Johnny Osbourne,
Theoretical Girls,
Arcadia,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Grass Roots,
The Move,
Masters at Work,
Crash Course in Science,
Negative Approach,
Lalo Schifrin,
Von Mondo,
CMW,
Iggy Pop,
Icehouse,
Surgeon,
Niagra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cure,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Outsiders,
Marvin Gaye,
Pet Shop Boys,
Janne Schatter,
Young Marble Giants,
The Toasters,
Juan Atkins,
Reagan Youth,
D'Angelo,
Jacob Miller,
Television Personalities,
Black Sheep,
Gang Green,
10cc,
Minny Pops,
Black Moon,
cv313,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.