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 Finland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 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 The Skatalites to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Roy Ayers,
Ponytail,
Joe Smooth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pulsallama,
Oneida,
Easy Going,
John Lydon,
Maleditus Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gichy Dan,
Altered Images,
Pagans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiopuhelimet,
Malaria!,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Depeche Mode,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crime,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter and Kerry,
Section 25,
David McCallum,
Robert Hood,
Talk Talk,
Japan,
Los Fastidios,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Starr,
Fat Boys,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camouflage,
Desert Stars,
These Immortal Souls,
Graham Central Station,
Henry Cow,
Roxy Music,
CMW,
Minnie Riperton,
Toni Rubio,
Tres Demented,
Audionom,
Brothers Johnson,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Angels of Light,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Groovy Waters,
Sister Nancy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Coltrane,
Bauhaus,
Wally Richardson,
Warren Ellis,
Jandek,
Symarip,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.