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 Malawi and from Tehran.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Johnny Clarke to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Talk Talk,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Negative Approach,
Stereo Dub,
Duran Duran,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Carl Craig,
Monolake,
Spoonie Gee,
Das Ding,
Piero Umiliani,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rod Modell,
China Crisis,
Bad Manners,
Sixth Finger,
Pantytec,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Buckinghams,
JFA,
Malaria!,
Electric Prunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Newcleus,
Alison Limerick,
Groovy Waters,
Sex Pistols,
The Remains,
The Fortunes,
Kerri Chandler,
Niagra,
Soulsonic Force,
The Dirtbombs,
Soft Machine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faust,
Johnny Clarke,
Leonard Cohen,
Drexciya,
UT,
Glambeats Corp.,
Depeche Mode,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mandrill,
Eve St. Jones,
Anakelly,
Bronski Beat,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Count Five,
Tim Buckley,
Bill Wells,
Peter & Gordon,
Roy Ayers,
Yellowson,
Henry Cow,
The Associates,
The Happenings,
Popol Vuh,
The Skatalites,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.