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 Tuvalu and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Johannesburg.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Lakeside to the dance 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soulsonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
The Doors,
Animal Collective,
Lindisfarne,
Babytalk,
Stockholm Monsters,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kevin Saunderson,
Fear,
Intrusion,
Lucky Dragons,
Kas Product,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Michelle Simonal,
Sonny Sharrock,
Parry Music,
Sparks,
The Black Dice,
Tears for Fears,
The Grass Roots,
Lakeside,
Archie Shepp,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Y Pants,
Guru Guru,
Dennis Brown,
The Move,
June of 44,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Warren Ellis,
Pantytec,
Carl Craig,
Brick,
The Zeros,
Swans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
MC5,
Don Cherry,
Cluster,
Kerrie Biddell,
Funkadelic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
This Heat,
The Offenders,
Faraquet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Zapp,
Amon Düül II,
Loose Ends,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.