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 Malawi 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lucky Dragons record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Audionom,
Nirvana,
Ossler,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Main Source,
Bluetip,
Index,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stiv Bators,
Black Pus,
Nik Kershaw,
Althea and Donna,
The Happenings,
Animal Collective,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ornette Coleman,
AZ,
Eric Dolphy,
Boz Scaggs,
Soulsonic Force,
Cymande,
This Heat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Gang of Four,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Quantec,
EPMD,
Pagans,
The Sound,
Bill Wells,
Depeche Mode,
Patti Smith,
Essential Logic,
Theoretical Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sonny Sharrock,
Accadde A,
Khruangbin,
Slave,
Franke,
John Coltrane,
Cecil Taylor,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Slits,
Sister Nancy,
Kayak,
Symarip,
Scion,
Reuben Wilson,
Stetsasonic,
Colin Newman,
Soul II Soul,
The Young Rascals,
The Selecter,
Livin' Joy,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.