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 Peru and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 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 Con Funk Shun to the disco 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Main Source,
Technova,
Metal Thangz,
Grey Daturas,
Tubeway Army,
Deakin,
Funky Four + One,
John Cale,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
CMW,
Stetsasonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The New Christs,
The Knickerbockers,
Kayak,
MDC,
Pharoah Sanders,
Icehouse,
Darondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sällskapet,
Underground Resistance,
Suicide,
The Young Rascals,
Can,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric B and Rakim,
Magazine,
The Cowsills,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bauhaus,
Agent Orange,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Wells,
The Gap Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Ken Boothe,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dorothy Ashby,
Girls At Our Best!,
Chris Corsano,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Judy Mowatt,
Goldenarms,
The Searchers,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Banda Bassotti,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang of Four,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
F. McDonald,
Black Pus,
Symarip,
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Gang Green,
Kaleidoscope,
The United States of America,
Reagan Youth,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.