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 Kosovo and from Salvador.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Outsiders to the punk 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Iggy Pop,
Second Layer,
The Index,
Fugazi,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grey Daturas,
One Last Wish,
Kerri Chandler,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soulsonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Mark Hollis,
Cybotron,
Todd Terry,
X-101,
Japan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
The Associates,
Pantaleimon,
David McCallum,
The Remains,
Rotary Connection,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Supertramp,
Make Up,
Piero Umiliani,
The Kinks,
cv313,
Todd Rundgren,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Grass Roots,
Tom Boy,
Juan Atkins,
Anthony Braxton,
Lightning Bolt,
Mantronix,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Offenders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
Drexciya,
Robert Hood,
Howard Jones,
Derrick Morgan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Malaria!,
Basic Channel,
Donny Hathaway,
Funky Four + One,
The Gladiators,
Lungfish,
Minnie Riperton,
Man Parrish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.
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.