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 Bulgaria and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Nick Fraelich to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Accadde A,
Dennis Brown,
Sällskapet,
Swans,
Todd Rundgren,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sex Pistols,
Roger Hodgson,
Deepchord,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drexciya,
Davy DMX,
Bobby Sherman,
Idris Muhammad,
Easy Going,
Faraquet,
The Modern Lovers,
Model 500,
Hoover,
Anakelly,
Parry Music,
Graham Central Station,
Bill Near,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Spoonie Gee,
Freddie Wadling,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Infiniti,
Derrick Morgan,
Basic Channel,
Schoolly D,
The United States of America,
The Monochrome Set,
Roxette,
the Bar-Kays,
Visage,
Mark Hollis,
Flipper,
Cybotron,
The Blues Magoos,
DJ Sneak,
Popol Vuh,
Pussy Galore,
Gichy Dan,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Connie Case,
Crash Course in Science,
Camouflage,
Don Cherry,
kango's stein massive,
Lakeside,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Young Rascals,
Blake Baxter,
Blossom Toes,
Thompson Twins,
cv313,
Marmalade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.