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 South Sudan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Wally Richardson to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Connie Case,
Arab on Radar,
KRS-One,
Procol Harum,
Negative Approach,
Ultra Naté,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Funkadelic,
Carl Craig,
Sound Behaviour,
Essential Logic,
John Cale,
Average White Band,
Aswad,
Accadde A,
Public Enemy,
Idris Muhammad,
Juan Atkins,
Harmonia,
Chris Corsano,
Johnny Clarke,
Nik Kershaw,
Metal Thangz,
Minnie Riperton,
Skaos,
Warren Ellis,
Soul II Soul,
Robert Görl,
Flipper,
The Busters,
Jerry's Kids,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronan,
The Zeros,
June of 44,
cv313,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blossom Toes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Gories,
Leonard Cohen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Cowsills,
The Moleskins,
Pagans,
The Toasters,
Magma,
The Angels of Light,
the Bar-Kays,
The Buckinghams,
Trumans Water,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kurtis Blow,
Stiv Bators,
Josef K,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Absolute Body Control,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.