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 Germany and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar 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 June Days to the jazz 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Boz Scaggs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick Morgan,
The Victims,
the Bar-Kays,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bad Manners,
Niagra,
Skarface,
Animal Collective,
Cybotron,
Pole,
Man Eating Sloth,
Matthew Halsall,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
Cymande,
Ituana,
Ludus,
Bill Wells,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lou Christie,
LL Cool J,
Eurythmics,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gories,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Spoonie Gee,
Technova,
Anthony Braxton,
Depeche Mode,
Hot Snakes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers,
Loose Ends,
Stiv Bators,
Peter & Gordon,
U.S. Maple,
Lower 48,
Mars,
The Golliwogs,
Thompson Twins,
Mission of Burma,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Count Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Associates,
Jimmy McGriff,
Trumans Water,
Icehouse,
Minor Threat,
The Busters,
Kerri Chandler,
The Evens,
Scrapy,
Funky Four + One,
Bluetip,
Gastr Del Sol,
Josef K,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.