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 Solomon Islands and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 sitar 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 Q65 to the punk 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound 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?
Kevin Saunderson,
Carl Craig,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blues Magoos,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Wyatt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roxette,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Thompson Twins,
Arcadia,
Black Sheep,
Flash Fearless,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Deakin,
Mo-Dettes,
Moebius,
Shoche,
The Gap Band,
Warsaw,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Martian,
Man Parrish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agitation Free,
New Order,
the Slits,
Quantec,
The Offenders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Eddi Front,
Ultra Naté,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Youth Brigade,
The Fuzztones,
Tropical Tobacco,
DJ Sneak,
Faust,
Pagans,
Danielle Patucci,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lyres,
The Stooges,
The J.B.'s,
Reagan Youth,
Camouflage,
Isaac Hayes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Skarface,
AZ,
Pere Ubu,
Circle Jerks,
Archie Shepp,
Monks,
Drexciya,
D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo, D'Angelo.
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.