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 Rwanda and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Con Funk Shun to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gang Starr. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Reuben Wilson,
U.S. Maple,
Los Fastidios,
Matthew Bourne,
Sixth Finger,
The Searchers,
Susan Cadogan,
Masters at Work,
Skriet,
The Dead C,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Outsiders,
Bobby Byrd,
The Monks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Minny Pops,
Jacob Miller,
Siglo XX,
The Litter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Minutemen,
Flipper,
JFA,
Livin' Joy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Flag,
Smog,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Cowsills,
Rufus Thomas,
the Swans,
Connie Case,
Stereo Dub,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
Swell Maps,
Lungfish,
Crash Course in Science,
Rotary Connection,
John Foxx,
China Crisis,
Anakelly,
Sonic Youth,
The Young Rascals,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
L. Decosne,
Ice-T,
X-102,
Technova,
Altered Images,
Oneida,
Yusef Lateef,
Malaria!,
Kenny Larkin,
Barbara Tucker,
Ten City,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.