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 Belgium and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ultra Naté to the grime 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Bronski Beat,
Archie Shepp,
Mark Hollis,
The Skatalites,
Alton Ellis,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Mars,
Porter Ricks,
JFA,
Gichy Dan,
kango's stein massive,
Grey Daturas,
Zero Boys,
Icehouse,
Prince Buster,
10cc,
Nirvana,
Blossom Toes,
Dual Sessions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Q and Not U,
Panda Bear,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ponytail,
Animal Collective,
Boz Scaggs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Trojans,
T. Rex,
Fela Kuti,
Kas Product,
Marvin Gaye,
In Retrospect,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aswad,
Fat Boys,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Alarm Clocks,
Shoche,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Black Bananas,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gladiators,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jerry's Kids,
Zapp,
the Sonics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thee Headcoats,
Tom Boy,
Delta 5,
KRS-One,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.