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 Montenegro and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Alison Limerick to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
The Gap Band,
Sandy B,
Moby Grape,
Drexciya,
the Normal,
K-Klass,
Eden Ahbez,
Nils Olav,
Theoretical Girls,
Danielle Patucci,
Schoolly D,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Walker Brothers,
John Holt,
R.M.O.,
The Shadows of Knight,
Excepter,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skriet,
Radiohead,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
Kurtis Blow,
Sixth Finger,
Von Mondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ken Boothe,
Bob Dylan,
Jandek,
Vainqueur,
Duran Duran,
Bill Near,
Ornette Coleman,
Matthew Halsall,
Nik Kershaw,
Matthew Bourne,
The Leaves,
Surgeon,
Cecil Taylor,
Camouflage,
Smog,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cymande,
Moebius,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Youth Brigade,
Hot Snakes,
Rites of Spring,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jeru the Damaja,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.