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 Uganda and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Yusef Lateef to the punk 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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Last Poets record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Metal Thangz,
The Golliwogs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Al Stewart,
The Cramps,
Tubeway Army,
Ice-T,
Nirvana,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare,
Mo-Dettes,
Ronnie Foster,
New Order,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hashim,
Ossler,
DJ Style,
Schoolly D,
Rosa Yemen,
Half Japanese,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerrie Biddell,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Man Parrish,
The Mummies,
Y Pants,
The Beau Brummels,
Eric Copeland,
Danielle Patucci,
Make Up,
Kayak,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Coltrane,
Roger Hodgson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sister Nancy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Associates,
Basic Channel,
Brand Nubian,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mantronix,
Moebius,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
One Last Wish,
Fatback Band,
Junior Murvin,
Connie Case,
ABBA,
Bauhaus,
The Doors,
The Motions,
Warren Ellis,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.