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 Korea South and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lalo Schifrin to the grime 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Delta 5,
Yaz,
Bluetip,
Bad Manners,
Freddie Wadling,
FM Einheit,
Vladislav Delay,
Little Man,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mark Hollis,
The Divine Comedy,
Malaria!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Icehouse,
Youth Brigade,
Gregory Isaacs,
Delon & Dalcan,
The American Breed,
Unwound,
John Lydon,
Sister Nancy,
Scion,
The Golliwogs,
The Trojans,
LL Cool J,
Surgeon,
EPMD,
Khruangbin,
Swans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Silicon Teens,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Desert Stars,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flash Fearless,
Max Romeo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mandrill,
Nick Fraelich,
Rakim,
Half Japanese,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Patti Smith,
The Moleskins,
Gang Starr,
Laurel Aitken,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sonny Sharrock,
David Bowie,
Easy Going,
Babytalk,
Matthew Halsall,
Ludus,
Mad Mike,
Sarah Menescal,
D'Angelo,
Basic Channel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Audionom,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.