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 Netherlands and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba 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 Reuben Wilson to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DeepChord presents Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Little Man,
Prince Buster,
Erykah Badu,
The Sound,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dave Gahan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minnie Riperton,
The Barracudas,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Excepter,
Donald Byrd,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Donny Hathaway,
Y Pants,
Warsaw,
The Black Dice,
In Retrospect,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sound Behaviour,
Soft Cell,
Barry Ungar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sex Pistols,
The Monochrome Set,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Danielle Patucci,
Vainqueur,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Buckinghams,
Mo-Dettes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Bar-Kays,
Rekid,
Gabor Szabo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bobby Sherman,
U.S. Maple,
The Techniques,
Electric Prunes,
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Inner City,
Easy Going,
Ornette Coleman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Vladislav Delay,
Mission of Burma,
Popol Vuh,
Fat Boys,
Sugar Minott,
Infiniti,
Rapeman,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.