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 Burundi and from Sao Paulo.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Hashim to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Barbara Tucker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Motions,
Michelle Simonal,
Panda Bear,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Womack,
the Sonics,
Shoche,
Glenn Branca,
Oblivians,
X-102,
Todd Terry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Reed,
Darondo,
The Music Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
David Axelrod,
Yusef Lateef,
Junior Murvin,
Maurizio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Grey Daturas,
Susan Cadogan,
Aloha Tigers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sonic Youth,
Stiv Bators,
Smog,
The Misunderstood,
Scrapy,
Duran Duran,
Livin' Joy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marine Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Skaos,
Thee Headcoats,
Roxette,
The Angels of Light,
The Vogues,
Donny Hathaway,
Johnny Osbourne,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lou Christie,
The Five Americans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sound Behaviour,
Crime,
Juan Atkins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Connie Case,
Lungfish,
Prince Buster,
Mad Mike,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.