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 El Salvador and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Radiohead to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Yusef Lateef,
Mary Jane Girls,
Hardrive,
The Blackbyrds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Crispy Ambulance,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
Zapp,
Anakelly,
Black Flag,
Lalann,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Howard Jones,
World's Most,
Cameo,
Silicon Teens,
Audionom,
The Searchers,
Ludus,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Electric Prunes,
The Victims,
Mandrill,
Theoretical Girls,
Godley & Creme,
Jeff Lynne,
Ice-T,
Chris Corsano,
Main Source,
Depeche Mode,
Erykah Badu,
Stetsasonic,
Yellowson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joey Negro,
Cal Tjader,
John Holt,
the Swans,
CMW,
Gong,
X-101,
Talk Talk,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scrapy,
Derrick May,
Warsaw,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sound Behaviour,
Minor Threat,
Flipper,
Thompson Twins,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.