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 Cuba and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum 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 F. McDonald to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell 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?
Flipper,
Drexciya,
Gregory Isaacs,
Toni Rubio,
Black Bananas,
Outsiders,
Andrew Hill,
Unwound,
Half Japanese,
Quantec,
The Mojo Men,
The Zeros,
Sun Ra,
Harpers Bizarre,
New Order,
Brand Nubian,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Duran Duran,
Dark Day,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Excepter,
Dual Sessions,
Marine Girls,
Kerri Chandler,
Thompson Twins,
Cecil Taylor,
Lakeside,
E-Dancer,
The American Breed,
The Durutti Column,
The Tremeloes,
The Remains,
Amon Düül,
Tres Demented,
Lightning Bolt,
Arab on Radar,
Eric Copeland,
Joey Negro,
Qualms,
UT,
Panda Bear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quando Quango,
Nils Olav,
Rites of Spring,
The Wake,
Trumans Water,
Siglo XX,
Roxy Music,
June Days,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Young Rascals,
Ituana,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crash Course in Science,
The Moleskins,
Charles Mingus,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
KRS-One,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Terrestrial Tones,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.