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 Benin and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 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 Michelle Simonal to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare,
OOIOO,
The Remains,
cv313,
Derrick May,
The Martian,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brick,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Swans,
Average White Band,
This Heat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Infiniti,
Robert Hood,
Suburban Knight,
Sight & Sound,
Flipper,
a-ha,
Cheater Slicks,
Kurtis Blow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Green,
Minny Pops,
Section 25,
Peter and Kerry,
La Düsseldorf,
Joey Negro,
DJ Style,
Jimmy McGriff,
Vladislav Delay,
Hardrive,
Clear Light,
D'Angelo,
Pylon,
Can,
Kaleidoscope,
Severed Heads,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Christie,
The Litter,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Cure,
Electric Prunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stetsasonic,
The Pop Group,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Residents,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Scion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Zapp,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The American Breed,
Liliput,
Interpol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.