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 Chad and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Q and Not U 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Monolake,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tears for Fears,
John Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Slave,
Gang Green,
EPMD,
Lou Christie,
Maurizio,
Eden Ahbez,
John Lydon,
Tim Buckley,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Associates,
Ice-T,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ossler,
Swans,
The Techniques,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
Bizarre Inc.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brass Construction,
Eric Dolphy,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Surgeon,
The Raincoats,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sparks,
Don Cherry,
Faust,
Rufus Thomas,
Organ,
Sex Pistols,
Main Source,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jacob Miller,
Althea and Donna,
Yellowson,
Jeff Mills,
Alton Ellis,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Real Kids,
Thee Headcoats,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
U.S. Maple,
Drive Like Jehu,
Erykah Badu,
Mark Hollis,
kango's stein massive,
Groovy Waters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Derrick Morgan,
the Swans,
Bob Dylan,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.