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 Nigeria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soulsonic Force 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
Shuggie Otis,
Blancmange,
Eli Mardock,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Animal Collective,
KRS-One,
Vainqueur,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Moleskins,
Todd Terry,
Talk Talk,
Donald Byrd,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Thee Headcoats,
Delta 5,
Gang Gang Dance,
Public Enemy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boz Scaggs,
Model 500,
Moby Grape,
Von Mondo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Saints,
Sound Behaviour,
In Retrospect,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Walker Brothers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sex Pistols,
The Flesh Eaters,
Harpers Bizarre,
Marmalade,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Brick,
Crooked Eye,
LL Cool J,
The Sonics,
The Wake,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quadrant,
Tears for Fears,
Rapeman,
Khruangbin,
Chris & Cosey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Magma,
Gang of Four,
Jacob Miller,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Stetsasonic,
John Holt,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.