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 Mongolia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Symarip to the funk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Sonic Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Flipper,
Ten City,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ornette Coleman,
The Grass Roots,
Reagan Youth,
ABBA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Andrew Hill,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cowsills,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ronan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ken Boothe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Buzzcocks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lindisfarne,
Alton Ellis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pulsallama,
The Remains,
Al Stewart,
Dual Sessions,
Johnny Clarke,
Thompson Twins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blake Baxter,
Bauhaus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Womack,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
U.S. Maple,
The Names,
The Cramps,
Mantronix,
Swans,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crash Course in Science,
Mad Mike,
Cameo,
Howard Jones,
The Stooges,
Hot Snakes,
Freddie Wadling,
Laurel Aitken,
Franke,
Lalann,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
The Monochrome Set,
Danielle Patucci,
Deepchord,
Soft Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.