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 Antigua and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cecil Taylor to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Hardrive,
Arab on Radar,
Das Ding,
Kerrie Biddell,
X-101,
Brass Construction,
Ultravox,
The Selecter,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Shuggie Otis,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Colin Newman,
Bush Tetras,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Simply Red,
Gabor Szabo,
Rufus Thomas,
Neil Young,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Tomorrow,
Camouflage,
The Moody Blues,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Technova,
Bill Wells,
Slave,
The Index,
Cluster,
Slick Rick,
The Smoke,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Drexciya,
Supertramp,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pet Shop Boys,
Leonard Cohen,
Silicon Teens,
Tim Buckley,
La Düsseldorf,
Japan,
The Toasters,
Newcleus,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Whodini,
Goldenarms,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Saints,
Aloha Tigers,
Bobby Byrd,
Agitation Free,
Yellowson,
The Doors,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.