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 Benin and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Zapp to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Al Stewart,
Morten Harket,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bush Tetras,
the Swans,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
the Normal,
Robert Wyatt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soft Machine,
Clear Light,
Scientists,
Peter and Kerry,
Yazoo,
David Axelrod,
Dave Gahan,
Pere Ubu,
Grauzone,
Graham Central Station,
The Young Rascals,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Curtis Mayfield,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon,
Simply Red,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
Section 25,
Lightning Bolt,
Matthew Bourne,
a-ha,
Blake Baxter,
Leonard Cohen,
Trumans Water,
Derrick Morgan,
New Order,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kerri Chandler,
The Remains,
Underground Resistance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Slackers,
Minor Threat,
Yusef Lateef,
Tomorrow,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rakim,
Tubeway Army,
Bill Near,
Grey Daturas,
World's Most,
Camberwell Now,
Ossler,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warsaw,
Symarip,
MC5,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.