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 Chile and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Johnny Osbourne to the crunk 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rites of Spring record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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,
The Last Poets,
The Move,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
kango's stein massive,
10cc,
The Flesh Eaters,
Josef K,
Lee Hazlewood,
Danielle Patucci,
Kaleidoscope,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Barbara Tucker,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare,
U.S. Maple,
the Swans,
Ludus,
Khruangbin,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fat Boys,
Barrington Levy,
Amon Düül II,
Scratch Acid,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Royal Trux,
Sonny Sharrock,
Todd Terry,
Von Mondo,
Drexciya,
Agitation Free,
Mark Hollis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Michelle Simonal,
Sällskapet,
Chrome,
Alton Ellis,
Lower 48,
Blancmange,
Matthew Bourne,
Anthony Braxton,
E-Dancer,
Jawbox,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Buckinghams,
Al Stewart,
Girls At Our Best!,
Cecil Taylor,
Urselle,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
The Kinks,
Minutemen,
Duran Duran,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.