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 Brunei and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Tremeloes to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Soul II Soul,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
June Days,
Chris Corsano,
In Retrospect,
Panda Bear,
Underground Resistance,
Barclay James Harvest,
Morten Harket,
Funkadelic,
The Beau Brummels,
Graham Central Station,
Black Moon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unrelated Segments,
X-102,
Symarip,
Flash Fearless,
Silicon Teens,
Thompson Twins,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ultimate Spinach,
OOIOO,
The Associates,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Max Romeo,
Warren Ellis,
Gong,
Magma,
Alice Coltrane,
Erasure,
JFA,
Electric Prunes,
Black Sheep,
The Sound,
Johnny Clarke,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
China Crisis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
K-Klass,
The Searchers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joy Division,
Alton Ellis,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ponytail,
Peter & Gordon,
The Electric Prunes,
Eddi Front,
Duran Duran,
Jimmy McGriff,
Arthur Verocai,
Yusef Lateef,
The Smiths,
Agent Orange,
Lightning Bolt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yaz,
The Walker Brothers,
The Kinks,
Scrapy,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.