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 Uganda and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Anthony Braxton to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Talk Talk,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rotary Connection,
Massinfluence,
Alton Ellis,
Suburban Knight,
48th St. Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
Reagan Youth,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Kinks,
Joensuu 1685,
E-Dancer,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ornette Coleman,
Skaos,
Monolake,
Joe Finger,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Faraquet,
Niagra,
The Names,
Dark Day,
Excepter,
Blancmange,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Grass Roots,
LL Cool J,
Lalann,
Mad Mike,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
T. Rex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Rekid,
The Raincoats,
Barbara Tucker,
Deepchord,
The Gories,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camouflage,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Das Ding,
Cymande,
Crooked Eye,
Visage,
Glambeats Corp.,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sun City Girls,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.