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 Bahamas and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Crash Course in Science to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Invisible,
Sound Behaviour,
Blancmange,
Black Bananas,
Altered Images,
Funky Four + One,
Yellowson,
Crime,
Amon Düül II,
Skaos,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ten City,
The Fall,
Average White Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pole,
Susan Cadogan,
Tomorrow,
Accadde A,
EPMD,
The Blues Magoos,
Cluster,
The Mummies,
K-Klass,
Moby Grape,
Bill Near,
Mission of Burma,
Aaron Thompson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Fad Gadget,
Cymande,
The Pop Group,
Warren Ellis,
Wally Richardson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
L. Decosne,
Sight & Sound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Albert Ayler,
Chris Corsano,
DNA,
Roy Ayers,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Morten Harket,
Jeff Mills,
Main Source,
UT,
Black Flag,
Siglo XX,
The Selecter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.