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 Kazakhstan and from Shanghai.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kurtis Blow,
New Age Steppers,
Iggy Pop,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Skaos,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Knickerbockers,
Charles Mingus,
The Dave Clark Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Music Machine,
Blancmange,
Kas Product,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rakim,
Angry Samoans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Alison Limerick,
Rites of Spring,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dennis Brown,
Groovy Waters,
Terry Callier,
The Real Kids,
Marmalade,
Von Mondo,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
EPMD,
MDC,
Electric Prunes,
John Cale,
Sugar Minott,
Panda Bear,
Lungfish,
Oneida,
Wally Richardson,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
The Selecter,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Fuzztones,
Zapp,
ABC,
The Mojo Men,
The Flesh Eaters,
Amon Düül II,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Los Fastidios,
Gang Gang Dance,
Newcleus,
T. Rex,
The Walker Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Donny Hathaway,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Glambeats Corp.,
Arthur Verocai,
KRS-One,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sun City Girls,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.