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 Nigeria and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the snare 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 Aswad to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Marcia Griffiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Starr,
The Sound,
Tommy Roe,
48th St. Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Monolake,
Roy Ayers,
Excepter,
Fatback Band,
Marmalade,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiohead,
Mad Mike,
Minnie Riperton,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Real Kids,
Steve Hackett,
Interpol,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Panda Bear,
The Grass Roots,
The Raincoats,
Mantronix,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare,
Angry Samoans,
Bauhaus,
Tim Buckley,
Spoonie Gee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Normal,
Soulsonic Force,
Pantaleimon,
Con Funk Shun,
The Buckinghams,
Bobby Byrd,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
Alton Ellis,
Ronan,
Crime,
Zapp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marvin Gaye,
Sällskapet,
Intrusion,
R.M.O.,
B.T. Express,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Selecter,
Bill Wells,
Soft Cell,
Duran Duran,
OOIOO,
The Skatalites,
DJ Sneak,
Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav, Nils Olav.
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.