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 Sweden and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Lille.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kevin Saunderson to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dawn Penn,
Rosa Yemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Detroit Cobras,
LL Cool J,
the Normal,
The Wake,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Fania All-Stars,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
Heaven 17,
Nils Olav,
8 Eyed Spy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Chrome,
The Leaves,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alice Coltrane,
Eve St. Jones,
Vladislav Delay,
Crash Course in Science,
Moebius,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Skatalites,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ten City,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Whodini,
Rufus Thomas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cowsills,
David Axelrod,
Babytalk,
Goldenarms,
The Smiths,
Cal Tjader,
Depeche Mode,
Joy Division,
The Durutti Column,
Maleditus Sound,
Sparks,
Angry Samoans,
The Cramps,
The Index,
Royal Trux,
Tim Buckley,
Lyres,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson.
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.