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 Sierra Leone and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Schoolly D record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Marine Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
The Skatalites,
Derrick Morgan,
The Black Dice,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Bourne,
Ronnie Foster,
The Detroit Cobras,
David Axelrod,
The Pop Group,
Alice Coltrane,
Glambeats Corp.,
48th St. Collective,
Cameo,
X-102,
Massinfluence,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monks,
Suicide,
Talk Talk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kevin Saunderson,
Chris & Cosey,
Quadrant,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Dead C,
Gil Scott Heron,
Electric Prunes,
Erasure,
L. Decosne,
Von Mondo,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Foxx,
Kenny Larkin,
Kerrie Biddell,
OOIOO,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Bar-Kays,
Audionom,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
DJ Sneak,
Colin Newman,
Half Japanese,
Fluxion,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Christie,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Zero Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Essential Logic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.