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 Qatar and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 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 Camouflage to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Los Fastidios. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The United States of America,
Agent Orange,
Avey Tare,
DJ Style,
Sixth Finger,
The Golliwogs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Beau Brummels,
World's Most,
Marc Almond,
Quando Quango,
T.S.O.L.,
Sällskapet,
Television Personalities,
Second Layer,
Aaron Thompson,
Cybotron,
Ultravox,
Derrick Morgan,
Boz Scaggs,
Roxette,
The Red Krayola,
Spoonie Gee,
Negative Approach,
The Moleskins,
The Skatalites,
Slave,
Robert Görl,
The Alarm Clocks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mantronix,
The Angels of Light,
Massinfluence,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Los Fastidios,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eddi Front,
Ossler,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Coltrane,
Roger Hodgson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
kango's stein massive,
The Blues Magoos,
Technova,
Clear Light,
The New Christs,
The Count Five,
Eric Dolphy,
MC5,
Wolf Eyes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Stockholm Monsters,
Moss Icon,
Amazonics,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.