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 Macedonia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ 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 Gang Starr 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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mo-Dettes,
Japan,
Michelle Simonal,
Rites of Spring,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Tropical Tobacco,
Absolute Body Control,
Joe Smooth,
10cc,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Das Ding,
Make Up,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Soft Cell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Suicide,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gabor Szabo,
Swans,
T.S.O.L.,
Barry Ungar,
Skarface,
Bob Dylan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Faust,
The Searchers,
Tomorrow,
Section 25,
Excepter,
Supertramp,
Babytalk,
Alton Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
the Association,
The Victims,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camberwell Now,
Quantec,
Blossom Toes,
The Moody Blues,
Groovy Waters,
Anthony Braxton,
Whodini,
Adolescents,
Mr. Review,
The Residents,
Slick Rick,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Public Enemy,
Siglo XX,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
48th St. Collective,
Cybotron,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.