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 Israel and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Moss Icon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Delta 5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Public Image Ltd.,
ABBA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
John Coltrane,
Don Cherry,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
ABC,
New York Dolls,
Funkadelic,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
The Barracudas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cameo,
Clear Light,
Fear,
Faust,
The Mojo Men,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barrington Levy,
Can,
The Fuzztones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Jeff Mills,
Alison Limerick,
Barbara Tucker,
Siglo XX,
CMW,
The J.B.'s,
Rakim,
Idris Muhammad,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
R.M.O.,
Hasil Adkins,
Buzzcocks,
The Pop Group,
Inner City,
Aloha Tigers,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Mantronix,
Outsiders,
Grauzone,
Steve Hackett,
Tom Boy,
Funky Four + One,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Selecter,
Mr. Review,
Sex Pistols,
Scan 7,
UT,
Eric Copeland,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.