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 Algeria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Stetsasonic to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Silicon Teens,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Stereo Dub,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Scrapy,
Sound Behaviour,
Gerry Rafferty,
Amazonics,
The Gladiators,
Siglo XX,
Jeff Mills,
Black Moon,
The Blackbyrds,
The Standells,
Jacob Miller,
the Soft Cell,
Todd Rundgren,
The Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Görl,
Rakim,
Piero Umiliani,
Tomorrow,
Nas,
Pantaleimon,
Sex Pistols,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Newcleus,
Mad Mike,
Rhythm & Sound,
Visage,
The Velvet Underground,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pantytec,
JFA,
The Neon Judgement,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deakin,
Wally Richardson,
Q and Not U,
John Foxx,
Harpers Bizarre,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Aloha Tigers,
Colin Newman,
Buzzcocks,
Section 25,
Brick,
Camberwell Now,
Derrick May,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Johnny Osbourne,
Soul II Soul,
Eve St. Jones,
Unwound,
Tres Demented,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pierre Henry,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.