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 Comoros and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 808 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 UT to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Guru Guru,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joey Negro,
Yellowson,
Barrington Levy,
Icehouse,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lakeside,
Eddi Front,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Groovy Waters,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Japan,
Sixth Finger,
Dark Day,
Harmonia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jimmy McGriff,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Public Enemy,
Nik Kershaw,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gong,
Soul II Soul,
Grauzone,
DNA,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Nico,
Skaos,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Bar-Kays,
John Coltrane,
Skriet,
Subhumans,
Mantronix,
Man Eating Sloth,
Gabor Szabo,
Nirvana,
Funkadelic,
Jawbox,
Von Mondo,
The Fall,
LL Cool J,
The Slackers,
X-101,
Ultravox,
the Sonics,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
La Düsseldorf,
Cybotron,
Dual Sessions,
Khruangbin,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Monolake,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.