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 Cyprus and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Jeff Mills to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camouflage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
Tubeway Army,
Kool Moe Dee,
Crash Course in Science,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Matthew Halsall,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeff Mills,
48th St. Collective,
Minutemen,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Guru Guru,
Erasure,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
These Immortal Souls,
Mantronix,
Barbara Tucker,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Zeros,
Intrusion,
Cal Tjader,
Jandek,
the Fania All-Stars,
Icehouse,
Accadde A,
DJ Style,
Marine Girls,
Deakin,
Aural Exciters,
Surgeon,
Byron Stingily,
The Residents,
Sun Ra,
Schoolly D,
T.S.O.L.,
Absolute Body Control,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Sheep,
Connie Case,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Yusef Lateef,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wally Richardson,
OOIOO,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Mojo Men,
Laurel Aitken,
The Smiths,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shuggie Otis,
Young Marble Giants,
Nas,
Yaz,
R.M.O.,
China Crisis,
The Wake,
The Move,
DJ Sneak,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.