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 Benin and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe 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 Alton Ellis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
Erykah Badu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Niagra,
Alton Ellis,
Minny Pops,
Godley & Creme,
Tommy Roe,
Davy DMX,
T.S.O.L.,
Cal Tjader,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Little Man,
Sonic Youth,
Bill Near,
The Busters,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Index,
Khruangbin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Loose Ends,
Pantytec,
Fad Gadget,
John Lydon,
John Cale,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
Crash Course in Science,
Freddie Wadling,
Cymande,
Nation of Ulysses,
World's Most,
Nirvana,
Gang Gang Dance,
Donny Hathaway,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joey Negro,
Heaven 17,
Arab on Radar,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Charles Mingus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Smog,
Don Cherry,
Pylon,
Unrelated Segments,
Warren Ellis,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gun Club,
Wally Richardson,
Sound Behaviour,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Flag,
Marvin Gaye,
Rekid,
Icehouse,
Quadrant,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.