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 Cameroon and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Green record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Metal Thangz,
Sight & Sound,
David McCallum,
Eddi Front,
Delta 5,
Boz Scaggs,
Marine Girls,
Television Personalities,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wasted Youth,
The Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sugar Minott,
Kevin Saunderson,
Von Mondo,
Kaleidoscope,
The Smoke,
Marmalade,
Amon Düül,
Drexciya,
Surgeon,
Susan Cadogan,
In Retrospect,
Angry Samoans,
Lou Christie,
Guru Guru,
The Remains,
Kerri Chandler,
The New Christs,
Erasure,
Fort Wilson Riot,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric Copeland,
Schoolly D,
Roy Ayers,
The Kinks,
Liliput,
Ossler,
Fela Kuti,
The Saints,
The Knickerbockers,
Sam Rivers,
Subhumans,
Model 500,
Yaz,
Accadde A,
Todd Terry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Supertramp,
The Pretty Things,
Man Eating Sloth,
Aaron Thompson,
a-ha,
Oneida,
June Days,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.