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 South Africa and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the electroclash 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 Suburban Knight. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Ronnie Foster,
Blancmange,
Chrome,
Buzzcocks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joensuu 1685,
Judy Mowatt,
Khruangbin,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Hood,
Cecil Taylor,
Derrick May,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Todd Rundgren,
Television Personalities,
Arcadia,
Harmonia,
Marvin Gaye,
Yusef Lateef,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Minny Pops,
the Normal,
Lightning Bolt,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter & Gordon,
Jacob Miller,
Shoche,
Ronan,
In Retrospect,
Talk Talk,
Drexciya,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Gap Band,
Kayak,
The Fuzztones,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
AZ,
Alphaville,
The Doors,
The Gories,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dave Gahan,
Gang of Four,
ABC,
Idris Muhammad,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
Main Source,
Grey Daturas,
Zero Boys,
Unwound,
Pantaleimon,
Basic Channel,
X-Ray Spex,
Suicide,
Ludus,
Negative Approach,
Marmalade,
Roxette,
Bobby Sherman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.