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 Venezuela and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 sitar 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 Marshall Jefferson to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Cheater Slicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum 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 sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Unrelated Segments,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ohio Players,
Pylon,
Lakeside,
Oblivians,
Shuggie Otis,
Gastr Del Sol,
Thompson Twins,
Maleditus Sound,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Infiniti,
Iggy Pop,
Underground Resistance,
New York Dolls,
Rod Modell,
Vladislav Delay,
Rites of Spring,
Anakelly,
Niagra,
The Gap Band,
Funkadelic,
KRS-One,
The Pretty Things,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Erasure,
Leonard Cohen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Standells,
Idris Muhammad,
The Barracudas,
Newcleus,
Q65,
Sällskapet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Anthony Braxton,
The J.B.'s,
The Motions,
The Invisible,
Yusef Lateef,
Michelle Simonal,
Donny Hathaway,
Los Fastidios,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Panda Bear,
The Black Dice,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Green,
Marmalade,
Janne Schatter,
Yazoo,
Youth Brigade,
Joe Smooth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nirvana,
Jeff Lynne,
10cc,
X-101,
the Soft Cell,
Drexciya,
Fat Boys,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.