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 Andorra and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eden Ahbez to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Swell Maps,
The Stooges,
Barbara Tucker,
Carl Craig,
Ronnie Foster,
the Human League,
JFA,
Jacob Miller,
The Mighty Diamonds,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang Gang Dance,
Robert Wyatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Harmonia,
Infiniti,
Aaron Thompson,
Blancmange,
Gregory Isaacs,
Young Marble Giants,
Massinfluence,
Accadde A,
Sandy B,
Rekid,
The Five Americans,
A Certain Ratio,
The Kinks,
Easy Going,
Gang Starr,
Half Japanese,
The Velvet Underground,
One Last Wish,
Franke,
Q65,
Amon Düül II,
The Residents,
Spoonie Gee,
Jerry's Kids,
Porter Ricks,
The Pop Group,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lucky Dragons,
Kayak,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharoah Sanders,
Little Man,
The Grass Roots,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Mojo Men,
Laurel Aitken,
Davy DMX,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barry Ungar,
Icehouse,
Bill Wells,
Delta 5,
Black Bananas,
Jawbox,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.