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 Spain and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 10cc to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Swell Maps,
Jeru the Damaja,
Qualms,
Audionom,
James White and The Blacks,
Tubeway Army,
Depeche Mode,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Desert Stars,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pierre Henry,
The Five Americans,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fatback Band,
Main Source,
Q and Not U,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kurtis Blow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Stooges,
One Last Wish,
Duran Duran,
Gerry Rafferty,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fortunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Inner City,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ornette Coleman,
In Retrospect,
Anakelly,
Mission of Burma,
The Doors,
Scrapy,
Lucky Dragons,
Arcadia,
New Order,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Cramps,
John Foxx,
Don Cherry,
Japan,
Sight & Sound,
Funky Four + One,
Negative Approach,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stereo Dub,
The Litter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pantaleimon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Groovy Waters,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Sonics,
Lightning Bolt,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yazoo,
Quantec,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.