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 San Marino and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jacob Miller to the grime 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jeff Mills,
Carl Craig,
Moby Grape,
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Charles Mingus,
Siglo XX,
Graham Central Station,
Lightning Bolt,
Brick,
Pere Ubu,
Magazine,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Remains,
Depeche Mode,
Essential Logic,
Eric Copeland,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gang Gang Dance,
Minny Pops,
Kaleidoscope,
Thee Headcoats,
Hashim,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Selecter,
Quadrant,
ABC,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Shoche,
PIL,
Procol Harum,
The Five Americans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marvin Gaye,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
MDC,
Connie Case,
Jacob Miller,
Big Daddy Kane,
Delta 5,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultra Naté,
Davy DMX,
Minor Threat,
Main Source,
The Motions,
The Dirtbombs,
Urselle,
Y Pants,
Mantronix,
Lower 48,
Bobby Womack,
the Bar-Kays,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Alton Ellis,
Deadbeat,
Steve Hackett,
Freddie Wadling,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment, Sexual Harrassment.
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.