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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Happenings to the disco 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 New Age Steppers. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
Yusef Lateef,
the Human League,
Minor Threat,
Scion,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fall,
The Five Americans,
Blossom Toes,
In Retrospect,
Groovy Waters,
Gang Starr,
Albert Ayler,
Stiv Bators,
Zero Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Rakim,
June of 44,
Talk Talk,
The Vogues,
L. Decosne,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rekid,
The Martian,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mad Mike,
John Holt,
Ultra Naté,
Technova,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sam Rivers,
Slave,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Crispy Ambulance,
Johnny Osbourne,
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Görl,
The Sonics,
Surgeon,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zapp,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Hood,
Sällskapet,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Qualms,
a-ha,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Wells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Jacob Miller,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.