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 Ivory Coast and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Shadows of Knight to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All Heaven 17 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Piero Umiliani,
Depeche Mode,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scientists,
The Move,
Anakelly,
Babytalk,
Howard Jones,
Urselle,
Connie Case,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alphaville,
Jandek,
Alton Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fugazi,
The Star Department,
Bill Near,
Derrick May,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gregory Isaacs,
R.M.O.,
Pere Ubu,
Underground Resistance,
Hashim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sound Behaviour,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Young Rascals,
Marc Almond,
Yazoo,
Eric B and Rakim,
Glenn Branca,
Ten City,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Groovy Waters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moebius,
Mars,
The Litter,
Wings,
DJ Sneak,
ABBA,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Panda Bear,
Amon Düül,
Michelle Simonal,
Animal Collective,
the Germs,
Donald Byrd,
The Searchers,
Mission of Burma,
Average White Band,
Gichy Dan,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.