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 Papua New Guinea and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Slick Rick to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler 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 harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Freddie Wadling,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Josef K,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rufus Thomas,
T.S.O.L.,
Youth Brigade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Leaves,
Avey Tare,
Yellowson,
Fat Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Joey Negro,
Byron Stingily,
Oblivians,
Wire,
Scan 7,
Q and Not U,
The Cramps,
Schoolly D,
The Walker Brothers,
Bobby Byrd,
Juan Atkins,
Danielle Patucci,
Ossler,
The Associates,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins,
CMW,
John Foxx,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grey Daturas,
Eve St. Jones,
Echospace,
ABC,
Minny Pops,
Pagans,
Monolake,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Vogues,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DJ Style,
Matthew Halsall,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Don Cherry,
Gang of Four,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Magazine,
Soul II Soul,
The Sonics,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Five Americans,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.