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 Kazakhstan and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sarah Menescal to the rock 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Searchers,
X-102,
The Human League,
Pharoah Sanders,
June of 44,
Pagans,
Gong,
Rotary Connection,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nico,
Roxette,
Alison Limerick,
Roy Ayers,
Bang On A Can,
Pylon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ossler,
Animal Collective,
Blossom Toes,
EPMD,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dave Clark Five,
Con Funk Shun,
the Human League,
John Foxx,
The Angels of Light,
The Residents,
The Grass Roots,
Spoonie Gee,
Essential Logic,
Vainqueur,
Freddie Wadling,
Gabor Szabo,
The Kinks,
Johnny Clarke,
Max Romeo,
Bootsy Collins,
Albert Ayler,
Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ornette Coleman,
Soulsonic Force,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gil Scott Heron,
MDC,
Mission of Burma,
Chrome,
Joensuu 1685,
Sugar Minott,
Yazoo,
Brothers Johnson,
Hasil Adkins,
R.M.O.,
Ten City,
Bill Wells,
Arthur Verocai,
PIL,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.