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 Bahamas and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Lille and Lyon.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Tomorrow 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Names,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fatback Band,
Slick Rick,
Monolake,
Television Personalities,
Black Bananas,
Cybotron,
Lindisfarne,
Liliput,
Funky Four + One,
Tommy Roe,
Nirvana,
Magma,
Metal Thangz,
Aural Exciters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Althea and Donna,
This Heat,
Guru Guru,
The Pretty Things,
Boz Scaggs,
Crooked Eye,
Barry Ungar,
Iggy Pop,
Oneida,
The Walker Brothers,
The Seeds,
Spoonie Gee,
Barrington Levy,
Dennis Brown,
Toni Rubio,
Anakelly,
The Trojans,
The Blues Magoos,
Sixth Finger,
Sun Ra,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Görl,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grauzone,
Black Sheep,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cecil Taylor,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sun City Girls,
Sandy B,
Lungfish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Audionom,
Glambeats Corp.,
Janne Schatter,
Ossler,
Roxette,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fugazi,
Young Marble Giants,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.