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 Serbia and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grime 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Procol Harum,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Rites of Spring,
Tres Demented,
Audionom,
Jeru the Damaja,
cv313,
Sexual Harrassment,
Oneida,
Q and Not U,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wolf Eyes,
The Tremeloes,
Funky Four + One,
La Düsseldorf,
Gichy Dan,
Swans,
Alton Ellis,
The J.B.'s,
The Electric Prunes,
Alice Coltrane,
Ituana,
Lightning Bolt,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Moby Grape,
Adolescents,
The Fugs,
Judy Mowatt,
The Moleskins,
Agent Orange,
The Beau Brummels,
The Pretty Things,
Fat Boys,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
Sight & Sound,
Grauzone,
The Gap Band,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fortunes,
Todd Terry,
Stetsasonic,
Letta Mbulu,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
KRS-One,
Banda Bassotti,
Intrusion,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bauhaus,
Mantronix,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Young Rascals,
Animal Collective,
Flash Fearless,
Lungfish,
The Residents,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.