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 Lithuania and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 rhodes 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 Newcleus to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Yazoo,
Lou Reed,
Country Teasers,
Gong,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
John Coltrane,
Matthew Bourne,
Sandy B,
Grauzone,
Soft Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Young Marble Giants,
Carl Craig,
Dark Day,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Isaac Hayes,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rod Modell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Angels of Light,
Donny Hathaway,
Toni Rubio,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Quadrant,
Scientists,
The Happenings,
Tubeway Army,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Black Dice,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nik Kershaw,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fad Gadget,
Depeche Mode,
The Skatalites,
8 Eyed Spy,
Altered Images,
Black Bananas,
James White and The Blacks,
Joyce Sims,
The Seeds,
Tim Buckley,
Crime,
Babytalk,
Lalann,
Minny Pops,
Television Personalities,
This Heat,
Pere Ubu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pylon,
Derrick Morgan,
Excepter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.