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 Egypt and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Carl Craig to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Agitation Free,
Robert Wyatt,
Alphaville,
The Fall,
Tres Demented,
Essential Logic,
Lucky Dragons,
Graham Central Station,
Cluster,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Vainqueur,
Hasil Adkins,
Cymande,
Index,
The United States of America,
John Foxx,
The Fuzztones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Silicon Teens,
Yazoo,
Morten Harket,
Country Teasers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonny Sharrock,
Section 25,
Toni Rubio,
Rosa Yemen,
Nico,
Y Pants,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scientists,
Spoonie Gee,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
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Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Yusef Lateef,
Josef K,
Skaos,
Davy DMX,
Can,
Average White Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sound Behaviour,
Television Personalities,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
Stetsasonic,
Heaven 17,
Tim Buckley,
Sonic Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
The Names,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.