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 Slovakia and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bar-Kays to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare,
Vainqueur,
Alton Ellis,
Lightning Bolt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
10cc,
Susan Cadogan,
Andrew Hill,
Flipper,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grauzone,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Count Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mandrill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
Nils Olav,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mo-Dettes,
Sound Behaviour,
Youth Brigade,
Scion,
Fatback Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Easy Going,
the Human League,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Stetsasonic,
One Last Wish,
The Birthday Party,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hot Snakes,
Ultimate Spinach,
June of 44,
Laurel Aitken,
Camberwell Now,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
Goldenarms,
Kerrie Biddell,
Royal Trux,
The Red Krayola,
Todd Rundgren,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pretty Things,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Television,
Von Mondo,
Pole,
Marcia Griffiths,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ornette Coleman,
Bang On A Can,
Warsaw,
Soulsonic Force,
D'Angelo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Spandau Ballet,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.