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 Bahamas and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Barracudas to the disco 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All June Days tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scrapy,
Glenn Branca,
Pagans,
Juan Atkins,
Laurel Aitken,
Von Mondo,
The Modern Lovers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Womack,
Yaz,
LL Cool J,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crime,
Sonic Youth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ultravox,
John Coltrane,
Gil Scott Heron,
Das Ding,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Agitation Free,
The Young Rascals,
Joey Negro,
Robert Görl,
Funkadelic,
Youth Brigade,
Tom Boy,
Glambeats Corp.,
Unrelated Segments,
Newcleus,
Heaven 17,
Gang of Four,
Franke,
the Bar-Kays,
Derrick May,
Wings,
Henry Cow,
Japan,
The Pretty Things,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Reagan Youth,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Seeds,
Soul II Soul,
Ronnie Foster,
Rotary Connection,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Trojans,
China Crisis,
Amazonics,
Ossler,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Zero Boys,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.