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 Japan and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pylon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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 New Christs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
U.S. Maple,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Vogues,
Reuben Wilson,
Fela Kuti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Tremeloes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boz Scaggs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Second Layer,
Whodini,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Yellowson,
Marmalade,
The Mummies,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moss Icon,
Jeff Mills,
One Last Wish,
Flash Fearless,
Amazonics,
Ken Boothe,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Al Stewart,
Model 500,
The Techniques,
Fluxion,
Scion,
Pulsallama,
Jerry's Kids,
The Buckinghams,
Desert Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Adolescents,
kango's stein massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gladiators,
The Fugs,
Henry Cow,
Cluster,
Deakin,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sixth Finger,
Audionom,
Maleditus Sound,
Echospace,
The Mojo Men,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.