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 Belize and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Spandau Ballet to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One 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 electroclash 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 clarinet and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Junior Murvin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kings Of Tomorrow,
F. McDonald,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ultra Naté,
Qualms,
Lalo Schifrin,
Simply Red,
Khruangbin,
Soulsonic Force,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Warsaw,
Zapp,
Vladislav Delay,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jandek,
Ultimate Spinach,
Howard Jones,
Mars,
Boredoms,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dennis Brown,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fatback Band,
Alison Limerick,
Max Romeo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Magma,
Barbara Tucker,
Joe Smooth,
the Bar-Kays,
Ossler,
Altered Images,
Lightning Bolt,
Tomorrow,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sixth Finger,
The Red Krayola,
Mantronix,
Quadrant,
Ice-T,
Michelle Simonal,
David Bowie,
The Grass Roots,
The Dead C,
Wings,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Los Fastidios,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Machine,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
Scott Walker,
cv313,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Freddie Wadling,
Iggy Pop,
Circle Jerks,
The Monks,
Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr, Gang Starr.
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.