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 Maldives and from Edmonton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
CMW,
Nils Olav,
The Knickerbockers,
Wire,
Juan Atkins,
Blake Baxter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Basic Channel,
Matthew Halsall,
Little Man,
John Foxx,
Throbbing Gristle,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Victims,
Newcleus,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Sound,
Masters at Work,
New Order,
Stereo Dub,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Inner City,
R.M.O.,
T. Rex,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Hood,
Joyce Sims,
The Remains,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q and Not U,
The Invisible,
Groovy Waters,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun City Girls,
The Busters,
Danielle Patucci,
Yellowson,
Bill Wells,
Slick Rick,
The Stooges,
Boogie Down Productions,
Al Stewart,
Clear Light,
Fear,
Sandy B,
Heaven 17,
Moby Grape,
Boredoms,
Gang of Four,
The Selecter,
Country Teasers,
Trumans Water,
Sugar Minott,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Dave Clark Five,
Eric Dolphy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.