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 Chad and from Winnipeg.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Y Pants to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The Fuzztones,
Suburban Knight,
Make Up,
The Barracudas,
Radiohead,
Procol Harum,
Zero Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Lalann,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Walker Brothers,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cure,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Con Funk Shun,
Albert Ayler,
Chrome,
The Motions,
Eric B and Rakim,
Alison Limerick,
Rosa Yemen,
Tears for Fears,
The Monochrome Set,
World's Most,
Lyres,
X-102,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fire Engines,
Sarah Menescal,
Thee Headcoats,
Fela Kuti,
Alton Ellis,
Pylon,
Motorama,
Intrusion,
Youth Brigade,
Eurythmics,
Joe Finger,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Young Rascals,
Newcleus,
Quadrant,
Quando Quango,
Bill Near,
Sight & Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Cecil Taylor,
Urselle,
Camberwell Now,
Franke,
Ponytail,
Outsiders,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eden Ahbez,
The Moody Blues,
Tim Buckley,
Harmonia,
DJ Style,
Donald Byrd,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.