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 London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 E-Dancer to the rap 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lucky Dragons,
Rites of Spring,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Human League,
Michelle Simonal,
Donny Hathaway,
Steve Hackett,
Quantec,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Sheep,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
the Normal,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Axelrod,
Cal Tjader,
Joensuu 1685,
Terry Callier,
Wings,
JFA,
Masters at Work,
Don Cherry,
Roger Hodgson,
Stiv Bators,
Eyeless In Gaza,
L. Decosne,
Electric Prunes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grey Daturas,
Janne Schatter,
the Soft Cell,
Accadde A,
DJ Sneak,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Bourne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pere Ubu,
Donald Byrd,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moby Grape,
The Victims,
The Divine Comedy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ralphi Rosario,
Reuben Wilson,
Danielle Patucci,
Public Image Ltd.,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
One Last Wish,
Charles Mingus,
Lyres,
Eric Copeland,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.