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 Hungary and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Guru Guru to the grime 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Mojo Men,
Nik Kershaw,
Pet Shop Boys,
LL Cool J,
Crime,
Porter Ricks,
Depeche Mode,
the Bar-Kays,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fluxion,
Stereo Dub,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Residents,
Gichy Dan,
Idris Muhammad,
Alice Coltrane,
Pere Ubu,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Byrd,
Basic Channel,
Saccharine Trust,
Don Cherry,
Minny Pops,
Davy DMX,
Hoover,
Amon Düül II,
The Happenings,
Matthew Bourne,
Sonic Youth,
The Sonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Marine Girls,
The Gap Band,
Maleditus Sound,
Black Flag,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quadrant,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mars,
John Foxx,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Moody Blues,
Black Pus,
Tropical Tobacco,
Toni Rubio,
The Count Five,
Pylon,
Bill Near,
Terry Callier,
The Saints,
Connie Case,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultra Naté,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.