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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare 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 Moss Icon to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Tubeway Army,
Mars,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Excepter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Silicon Teens,
Mark Hollis,
Stockholm Monsters,
Heaven 17,
Skaos,
Minnie Riperton,
The Count Five,
Can,
Ice-T,
the Sonics,
Rotary Connection,
Dennis Brown,
Fluxion,
Chris Corsano,
Todd Terry,
the Germs,
Carl Craig,
Funky Four + One,
Archie Shepp,
Underground Resistance,
Amon Düül II,
Delta 5,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter & Gordon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Magazine,
Moby Grape,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Morten Harket,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Idris Muhammad,
Altered Images,
The Black Dice,
Tim Buckley,
Marc Almond,
Radiohead,
Brick,
Quando Quango,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shoche,
Aswad,
10cc,
Liliput,
The Skatalites,
Rod Modell,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Holt,
The Golliwogs,
JFA,
Schoolly D,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.