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 Kenya and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 AZ 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Make Up,
The Gories,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eli Mardock,
Urselle,
Lightning Bolt,
Spoonie Gee,
Con Funk Shun,
Mandrill,
Johnny Osbourne,
Boz Scaggs,
ABBA,
MDC,
Aural Exciters,
The Monochrome Set,
The Raincoats,
Albert Ayler,
The Gap Band,
R.M.O.,
Pierre Henry,
Skaos,
Liliput,
Television Personalities,
Sex Pistols,
Eddi Front,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultra Naté,
New York Dolls,
Black Moon,
Franke,
The Motions,
The Selecter,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
X-Ray Spex,
Ten City,
Joensuu 1685,
Japan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Harry Pussy,
Grey Daturas,
Glenn Branca,
Quando Quango,
Guru Guru,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Electric Prunes,
Lungfish,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brass Construction,
Moss Icon,
Johnny Clarke,
Mantronix,
Gang Green,
Country Teasers,
Audionom,
10cc,
The Saints,
the Fania All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Index,
Scion,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.