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 Oman and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Spokane and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 John Coltrane to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Outsiders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Rod Modell,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Smog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sun Ra,
Tropical Tobacco,
ABBA,
Alphaville,
Pere Ubu,
Jerry Gold Smith,
This Heat,
Barrington Levy,
Television,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ken Boothe,
K-Klass,
Loose Ends,
Connie Case,
Minor Threat,
The Searchers,
Simply Red,
DJ Style,
Ornette Coleman,
Deakin,
Dennis Brown,
Arab on Radar,
kango's stein massive,
Godley & Creme,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rotary Connection,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter and Kerry,
the Fania All-Stars,
Soft Machine,
the Human League,
The Selecter,
Vainqueur,
Black Sheep,
the Germs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eddi Front,
Lindisfarne,
Kaleidoscope,
Soft Cell,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
CMW,
Roxette,
Maleditus Sound,
Banda Bassotti,
Matthew Halsall,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deepchord,
Gastr Del Sol,
Slick Rick,
Babytalk,
Idris Muhammad,
Prince Buster,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.