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 Mumbai.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ituana to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Smiths,
The Velvet Underground,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Association,
The Monochrome Set,
Youth Brigade,
Freddie Wadling,
Soul II Soul,
MDC,
Can,
Godley & Creme,
Brothers Johnson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Swans,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Popol Vuh,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Zero Boys,
The Selecter,
Yazoo,
Television,
Camouflage,
DNA,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Icehouse,
Flamin' Groovies,
Altered Images,
Symarip,
Arcadia,
Main Source,
Aural Exciters,
Q and Not U,
Marc Almond,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Sheep,
Idris Muhammad,
Eddi Front,
Sonny Sharrock,
Agitation Free,
The American Breed,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Star Department,
Quadrant,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Residents,
Kurtis Blow,
Quando Quango,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Josef K,
The Techniques,
World's Most,
The Modern Lovers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hashim,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.