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 Spain and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Alton Ellis to the funk 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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Section 25 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Associates,
Tom Boy,
Freddie Wadling,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Newcleus,
Dark Day,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cheater Slicks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
X-102,
Dawn Penn,
The Cowsills,
The Birthday Party,
Stetsasonic,
Banda Bassotti,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
Lightning Bolt,
Donny Hathaway,
Derrick Morgan,
Ossler,
DJ Style,
Schoolly D,
Suburban Knight,
Kayak,
Rotary Connection,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Foxx,
Sonic Youth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eric Dolphy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hashim,
Leonard Cohen,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mad Mike,
Wire,
Wasted Youth,
the Association,
Fugazi,
Minnie Riperton,
Swell Maps,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
June Days,
Funkadelic,
Prince Buster,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Bananas,
Wally Richardson,
Tim Buckley,
Fad Gadget,
Scion,
the Normal,
The Dirtbombs,
Ten City,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.