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 Comoros and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Subhumans to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
kango's stein massive,
Metal Thangz,
L. Decosne,
The Trojans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Piero Umiliani,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
Intrusion,
Cecil Taylor,
The Seeds,
Sällskapet,
Cymande,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
New Order,
The Beau Brummels,
Excepter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Interpol,
Johnny Clarke,
Jerry's Kids,
The Black Dice,
Hashim,
Graham Central Station,
T.S.O.L.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rufus Thomas,
Youth Brigade,
Danielle Patucci,
Can,
Panda Bear,
Camberwell Now,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Goldenarms,
Sam Rivers,
Technova,
Kenny Larkin,
Ohio Players,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grauzone,
Hardrive,
Blake Baxter,
The Zeros,
Freddie Wadling,
Guru Guru,
Pussy Galore,
Cheater Slicks,
The J.B.'s,
Albert Ayler,
Ronan,
Au Pairs,
Bad Manners,
The Fortunes,
The Names,
Glenn Branca,
Eric Copeland,
Sunsets and Hearts,
F. McDonald,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.