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 Uganda and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Con Funk Shun to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Monks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
These Immortal Souls,
Cheater Slicks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra,
Connie Case,
Zero Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Technova,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang of Four,
Dorothy Ashby,
Quadrant,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mission of Burma,
Livin' Joy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joe Smooth,
The Mojo Men,
Crooked Eye,
Ultravox,
The Wake,
Ten City,
Neil Young,
Skarface,
Prince Buster,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soft Machine,
The Index,
Joe Finger,
MC5,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marc Almond,
The Star Department,
Newcleus,
Model 500,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Archie Shepp,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mantronix,
Rekid,
Main Source,
Ornette Coleman,
The Real Kids,
Stockholm Monsters,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Althea and Donna,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Michelle Simonal,
X-Ray Spex,
The Blues Magoos,
The Velvet Underground,
Tubeway Army,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Brass Construction,
Barry Ungar,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.