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 Turkey and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manila.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Henry Cow to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gian Franco Pienzio 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Crooked Eye,
Maurizio,
Peter and Kerry,
Subhumans,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Drive Like Jehu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joensuu 1685,
Freddie Wadling,
Cymande,
Groovy Waters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Funky Four + One,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
X-102,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
Blancmange,
Toni Rubio,
Barbara Tucker,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ponytail,
Television Personalities,
The New Christs,
Silicon Teens,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Saints,
Brick,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gabor Szabo,
Theoretical Girls,
Ronan,
Whodini,
Yellowson,
The Standells,
Malaria!,
Siglo XX,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nils Olav,
Rites of Spring,
Yusef Lateef,
Das Ding,
Ituana,
Zero Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
The Tremeloes,
Lower 48,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Grass Roots,
Marcia Griffiths,
Panda Bear,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.