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 Singapore and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Al Stewart to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Selector Dub Narcotic. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
10cc,
The Fuzztones,
The Invisible,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Womack,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Arthur Verocai,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Technova,
Yaz,
Buzzcocks,
The Toasters,
Agitation Free,
Moss Icon,
Leonard Cohen,
The Neon Judgement,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Oblivians,
Vainqueur,
Main Source,
The Gun Club,
China Crisis,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Techniques,
Robert Hood,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
Colin Newman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dennis Brown,
Mantronix,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Cale,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faust,
Archie Shepp,
The Standells,
Au Pairs,
Panda Bear,
Fluxion,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
Animal Collective,
Aural Exciters,
the Normal,
Stockholm Monsters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Smoke,
The Fugs,
Rotary Connection,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hasil Adkins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Doors,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.