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 Cambodia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Siglo XX to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sad Lovers and Giants. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Flipper,
Yazoo,
Main Source,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Star Department,
The Electric Prunes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Roxette,
Todd Terry,
Al Stewart,
EPMD,
The Trojans,
Royal Trux,
Sun Ra,
Faraquet,
Eve St. Jones,
Gong,
Hardrive,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Red Krayola,
Aswad,
Ponytail,
Suicide,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
David Bowie,
Con Funk Shun,
Kurtis Blow,
Arcadia,
Lakeside,
The Five Americans,
The Remains,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Residents,
Skriet,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Saints,
Carl Craig,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tommy Roe,
Johnny Clarke,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Black Pus,
The Smiths,
the Soft Cell,
Bad Manners,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sound,
Man Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Masters at Work,
Bobby Byrd,
Robert Görl,
The Detroit Cobras,
Essential Logic,
Connie Case,
Blancmange,
Laurel Aitken,
X-101, X-101, X-101, X-101.
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.