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 Turkmenistan and from Hong Kong.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 harpsichord 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 Trumans Water to the rap 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All The Flesh Eaters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Subhumans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Barracudas,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Pus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warren Ellis,
JFA,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Heaven 17,
Eric Dolphy,
Von Mondo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cheater Slicks,
Isaac Hayes,
The Kinks,
Deadbeat,
Donny Hathaway,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radiohead,
Aloha Tigers,
PIL,
Royal Trux,
Harmonia,
The Wake,
CMW,
Skaos,
China Crisis,
Ronnie Foster,
The Human League,
Jawbox,
Anthony Braxton,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Moon,
The Gap Band,
Drexciya,
Sarah Menescal,
The Smiths,
Sixth Finger,
Suburban Knight,
Nirvana,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moebius,
Bobby Sherman,
Rufus Thomas,
Section 25,
Nils Olav,
Popol Vuh,
Main Source,
Simply Red,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare,
The Monks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tom Boy,
The Evens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.