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 Colombia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
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 linndrum 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 Joe Finger to the crunk 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Pussy Galore tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Techniques,
Surgeon,
The Durutti Column,
Bang On A Can,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Blues Magoos,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Basic Channel,
Mantronix,
Deakin,
Howard Jones,
Vainqueur,
Electric Prunes,
The Mojo Men,
Bush Tetras,
Con Funk Shun,
Boz Scaggs,
The Dead C,
OOIOO,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Saccharine Trust,
Accadde A,
Stereo Dub,
Ponytail,
David McCallum,
Avey Tare,
Intrusion,
Wire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Unwound,
Al Stewart,
Little Man,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sister Nancy,
John Foxx,
The Young Rascals,
Bizarre Inc.,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donny Hathaway,
Masters at Work,
The Gap Band,
Anthony Braxton,
Grandmaster Flash,
James White and The Blacks,
Wally Richardson,
The Offenders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fugs,
Skaos,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rekid,
Visage,
Second Layer,
Soul Sonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
Gichy Dan,
Goldenarms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.