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 Taiwan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Misunderstood to the electroclash 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jimmy McGriff,
Q65,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monolake,
Quadrant,
Kerri Chandler,
Tears for Fears,
Letta Mbulu,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalann,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Enemy,
Thompson Twins,
The Remains,
Absolute Body Control,
Chrome,
Kerrie Biddell,
OOIOO,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Shuggie Otis,
Byron Stingily,
Scrapy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Rapeman,
Duran Duran,
Monks,
John Lydon,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flash Fearless,
Cybotron,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
Newcleus,
Mad Mike,
This Heat,
the Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sarah Menescal,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Joensuu 1685,
Depeche Mode,
Soulsonic Force,
Silicon Teens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Sixth Finger,
Delta 5,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Trojans,
Make Up,
The Doors,
48th St. Collective,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ornette Coleman,
Mission of Burma,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.