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 Somalia and from Hong Kong.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Danielle Patucci to the grime 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Joy Division,
Susan Cadogan,
Sonic Youth,
Porter Ricks,
Scion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
T. Rex,
Junior Murvin,
Depeche Mode,
Patti Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
Spandau Ballet,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
Joey Negro,
The Mojo Men,
Todd Rundgren,
Vladislav Delay,
Oblivians,
The Blues Magoos,
Big Daddy Kane,
Country Joe & The Fish,
China Crisis,
Brothers Johnson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Popol Vuh,
Cheater Slicks,
Minny Pops,
Clear Light,
Amon Düül,
Johnny Clarke,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moleskins,
Byron Stingily,
Fluxion,
Suicide,
The Slackers,
cv313,
Jandek,
Pere Ubu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lyres,
Nils Olav,
The Litter,
Public Image Ltd.,
Josef K,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kerrie Biddell,
Althea and Donna,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Monochrome Set,
Crash Course in Science,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lungfish,
Pantytec,
Pussy Galore,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.