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 Mauritius and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Monks to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joy Division,
Silicon Teens,
Juan Atkins,
Rosa Yemen,
China Crisis,
Scientists,
Mandrill,
The Raincoats,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gichy Dan,
Severed Heads,
X-102,
Urselle,
Eric Copeland,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barrington Levy,
Dark Day,
Derrick May,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Archie Shepp,
Chris & Cosey,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boz Scaggs,
The Busters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Pus,
The Dirtbombs,
UT,
X-Ray Spex,
New Age Steppers,
The Fuzztones,
Shoche,
Skriet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Birthday Party,
Pierre Henry,
Theoretical Girls,
Desert Stars,
Pussy Galore,
B.T. Express,
Carl Craig,
The Walker Brothers,
Danielle Patucci,
Pagans,
The Monochrome Set,
Banda Bassotti,
Young Marble Giants,
Cymande,
Sun City Girls,
Lalann,
the Germs,
Gabor Szabo,
Electric Prunes,
Basic Channel,
D'Angelo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.