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 Moldova 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba 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 Dark Day to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fela Kuti,
Pagans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sparks,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joyce Sims,
Youth Brigade,
Das Ding,
Skarface,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Stooges,
Alton Ellis,
Robert Hood,
Surgeon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bauhaus,
World's Most,
Lakeside,
The Walker Brothers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Theoretical Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
David McCallum,
Arcadia,
PIL,
The Pop Group,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Amazonics,
Circle Jerks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scientists,
Dennis Brown,
Los Fastidios,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
The Offenders,
Fluxion,
Panda Bear,
the Slits,
Juan Atkins,
Maurizio,
Graham Central Station,
Jacob Miller,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Accadde A,
Soft Cell,
Scan 7,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Green,
U.S. Maple,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rosa Yemen,
The Monks,
The Slackers,
The Last Poets,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.