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 Sweden and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Cramps to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
The Electric Prunes,
Archie Shepp,
Piero Umiliani,
Guru Guru,
China Crisis,
Kurtis Blow,
Cluster,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Make Up,
Black Sheep,
Youth Brigade,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Negative Approach,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rekid,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Con Funk Shun,
Joe Smooth,
The Slits,
The Dead C,
John Holt,
Lou Reed,
Pussy Galore,
DJ Sneak,
Todd Terry,
Joy Division,
Outsiders,
Gang Green,
The Victims,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shuggie Otis,
Laurel Aitken,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Walker Brothers,
Das Ding,
Blake Baxter,
Cecil Taylor,
Drexciya,
Crash Course in Science,
Minor Threat,
The Moleskins,
One Last Wish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hardrive,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dead Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Reuben Wilson,
Chrome,
Boz Scaggs,
Hot Snakes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.