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 Eritrea and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 808 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 Funky Four + One to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
The Tremeloes,
UT,
The Grass Roots,
Aaron Thompson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sister Nancy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Birthday Party,
Rapeman,
Mark Hollis,
Connie Case,
The Selecter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Public Enemy,
Sarah Menescal,
Basic Channel,
Ice-T,
Maleditus Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Swans,
David Bowie,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Womack,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Move,
Tom Boy,
Mad Mike,
Toni Rubio,
Alison Limerick,
Ponytail,
Magma,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Porter Ricks,
Robert Wyatt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donald Byrd,
Shoche,
Moby Grape,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bootsy Collins,
Symarip,
Mary Jane Girls,
LL Cool J,
Moss Icon,
Fatback Band,
Pylon,
Underground Resistance,
Peter and Kerry,
Brass Construction,
Boogie Down Productions,
Desert Stars,
Minutemen,
The Music Machine,
Stiv Bators,
Harmonia,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.