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 Jamaica and from Glasgow.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mantronix to the rock 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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Brothers Johnson,
Kool Moe Dee,
Matthew Halsall,
Soulsonic Force,
Joyce Sims,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nirvana,
Man Parrish,
Flash Fearless,
Ice-T,
Arcadia,
Black Moon,
The Moody Blues,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Five Americans,
JFA,
Boz Scaggs,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gories,
cv313,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
Supertramp,
Idris Muhammad,
Soft Cell,
Skaos,
CMW,
The Count Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Mad Mike,
Roxette,
Gil Scott Heron,
Alphaville,
Essential Logic,
Q65,
Yellowson,
Morten Harket,
Alton Ellis,
The Gun Club,
a-ha,
Qualms,
The Birthday Party,
Marc Almond,
Oblivians,
Arab on Radar,
The Standells,
The Red Krayola,
Drexciya,
Dual Sessions,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wasted Youth,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.