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 Tajikistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 EPMD to the dance 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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lindisfarne,
Newcleus,
Ice-T,
Hashim,
Funkadelic,
The Remains,
Oneida,
The Vogues,
Lightning Bolt,
Sixth Finger,
the Swans,
Yaz,
OOIOO,
Eric Dolphy,
Piero Umiliani,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Dead C,
A Certain Ratio,
Crispian St. Peters,
Fear,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Birthday Party,
Crime,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Young Marble Giants,
Unwound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Neil Young,
Darondo,
Symarip,
Technova,
The Cramps,
X-101,
Kenny Larkin,
Wire,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Warren Ellis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moss Icon,
Erasure,
Scratch Acid,
Lalann,
Metal Thangz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fela Kuti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scan 7,
Banda Bassotti,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Slits,
Q and Not U,
Pylon,
Radio Birdman,
Ronan,
Derrick Morgan,
Toni Rubio,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.