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 Tanzania and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the rock 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Jacob Miller,
The Cure,
Quantec,
Goldenarms,
Aaron Thompson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Hood,
Arthur Verocai,
Ken Boothe,
Graham Central Station,
Ronan,
The Blackbyrds,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Searchers,
Liliput,
Johnny Clarke,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mark Hollis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Main Source,
The J.B.'s,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rakim,
The Litter,
Barbara Tucker,
the Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Invisible,
Thee Headcoats,
Blossom Toes,
Make Up,
Swell Maps,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
T. Rex,
James White and The Blacks,
Lindisfarne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sonic Youth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wire,
FM Einheit,
Jandek,
Pantaleimon,
Crash Course in Science,
Marmalade,
The Slackers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nik Kershaw,
Section 25,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Stetsasonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Wyatt,
Pole,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.