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 Sudan and from Bremen.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 sitar 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 Sällskapet to the disco 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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Leonard Cohen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The American Breed,
Quantec,
Symarip,
Heaven 17,
Clear Light,
Popol Vuh,
Interpol,
Marmalade,
Soulsonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Make Up,
The Real Kids,
The Young Rascals,
Niagra,
Easy Going,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bobby Womack,
Yusef Lateef,
Sugar Minott,
Alison Limerick,
Pantytec,
Thee Headcoats,
Intrusion,
The Skatalites,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fatback Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Görl,
The Pop Group,
KRS-One,
Yazoo,
Fear,
Eli Mardock,
The Zeros,
Reagan Youth,
Jandek,
D'Angelo,
Lalann,
Maleditus Sound,
Newcleus,
Kerrie Biddell,
Boz Scaggs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Adolescents,
CMW,
Franke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
Essential Logic,
Derrick Morgan,
Brothers Johnson,
The Sonics,
Guru Guru,
Accadde A,
FM Einheit,
Ituana,
Delta 5,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.