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 the UAE and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Malaria! to the rap 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Scan 7,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Skatalites,
Matthew Halsall,
Basic Channel,
Isaac Hayes,
The Pop Group,
Prince Buster,
The Misunderstood,
Jawbox,
Ultra Naté,
Ronan,
Amazonics,
OOIOO,
The Vogues,
Frankie Knuckles,
Steve Hackett,
Easy Going,
Metal Thangz,
Radio Birdman,
Make Up,
Mo-Dettes,
The Zeros,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Danielle Patucci,
Symarip,
Eli Mardock,
Joe Smooth,
Glenn Branca,
Inner City,
Babytalk,
The Standells,
Boogie Down Productions,
Model 500,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Litter,
Eurythmics,
Half Japanese,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Blake Baxter,
Young Marble Giants,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ludus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minnie Riperton,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marshall Jefferson,
Arab on Radar,
Shuggie Otis,
Max Romeo,
Lucky Dragons,
Yazoo,
Sun City Girls,
Unwound,
Panda Bear,
Brass Construction,
the Human League,
Avey Tare,
The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground, The Velvet Underground.
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.