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 Malaysia and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 Aswad to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Derrick Morgan,
Icehouse,
Massinfluence,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jacques Brel,
The Detroit Cobras,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gabor Szabo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lungfish,
Laurel Aitken,
The Happenings,
LL Cool J,
Cheater Slicks,
Robert Hood,
ABBA,
Ornette Coleman,
Althea and Donna,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
JFA,
Scion,
10cc,
Ohio Players,
Oblivians,
cv313,
Amon Düül II,
Boredoms,
D'Angelo,
Animal Collective,
Moebius,
The Kinks,
The Associates,
the Germs,
Piero Umiliani,
Khruangbin,
R.M.O.,
Jawbox,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lebanon Hanover,
New Order,
Al Stewart,
Negative Approach,
Isaac Hayes,
The Electric Prunes,
Fad Gadget,
Grauzone,
Surgeon,
Erykah Badu,
Dennis Brown,
Whodini,
Minny Pops,
Eddi Front,
Flipper,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Spoonie Gee,
Franke,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.