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 Singapore and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro 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 DJ Sneak to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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?
Dennis Brown,
Nas,
Derrick Morgan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Bourne,
Alton Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Groovy Waters,
Agent Orange,
Letta Mbulu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cluster,
Swell Maps,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Anakelly,
Royal Trux,
10cc,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
La Düsseldorf,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Con Funk Shun,
Sound Behaviour,
Monolake,
Colin Newman,
Dawn Penn,
The Gladiators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Althea and Donna,
China Crisis,
Roxette,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Blossom Toes,
Youth Brigade,
Duran Duran,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cheater Slicks,
Metal Thangz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Slick Rick,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
The Trojans,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crooked Eye,
Ponytail,
Absolute Body Control,
Jesper Dahlback,
Dual Sessions,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Parry Music,
Outsiders,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pole,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.