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 Suriname and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ossler to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All X-101 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
James White and The Blacks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gap Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Victims,
Anthony Braxton,
Bill Near,
John Coltrane,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Prince Buster,
Archie Shepp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terry Callier,
Stiv Bators,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Green,
Electric Prunes,
Slick Rick,
Roy Ayers,
Los Fastidios,
Yusef Lateef,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jacques Brel,
Graham Central Station,
48th St. Collective,
Black Moon,
Television Personalities,
Warsaw,
Kaleidoscope,
Sugar Minott,
FM Einheit,
The Blues Magoos,
Isaac Hayes,
Oneida,
Jerry's Kids,
Spoonie Gee,
The Divine Comedy,
Junior Murvin,
Bootsy Collins,
Pagans,
Camberwell Now,
The Modern Lovers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
H. Thieme,
Pulsallama,
Ralphi Rosario,
Neil Young,
D'Angelo,
Ossler,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
Jacob Miller,
Idris Muhammad,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Symarip,
The Velvet Underground,
Eli Mardock,
Arcadia,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Move,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.