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 Albania and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Glasgow.
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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marshall Jefferson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kurtis Blow,
Visage,
Heaven 17,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Arcadia,
Dave Gahan,
The Dirtbombs,
Brand Nubian,
Magma,
U.S. Maple,
Blossom Toes,
The Invisible,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Stiv Bators,
Pantytec,
Y Pants,
Letta Mbulu,
Bill Near,
Mr. Review,
Marine Girls,
Bronski Beat,
Altered Images,
Erykah Badu,
Soft Machine,
Niagra,
Jeff Mills,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Ronnie Foster,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
KRS-One,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Swans,
Intrusion,
Groovy Waters,
Shoche,
Eric Dolphy,
Con Funk Shun,
Juan Atkins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Toasters,
Joe Finger,
Icehouse,
Index,
Bobby Womack,
Newcleus,
PIL,
Amon Düül II,
The Durutti Column,
Sun City Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cal Tjader,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.