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 Venezuela and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Johannesburg.
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 organ 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 Kerri Chandler 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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tim Buckley,
Country Teasers,
The Seeds,
Suburban Knight,
Ice-T,
Los Fastidios,
The Standells,
The Modern Lovers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Organ,
Matthew Bourne,
Sparks,
Stereo Dub,
The Names,
Jimmy McGriff,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rotary Connection,
Rekid,
Quantec,
The United States of America,
Pere Ubu,
Banda Bassotti,
Kenny Larkin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
Howard Jones,
Dennis Brown,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Bluetip,
Joensuu 1685,
Bootsy Collins,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Simply Red,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Arab on Radar,
The Selecter,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Residents,
Whodini,
D'Angelo,
Funky Four + One,
Amon Düül,
Yaz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Talk Talk,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Grass Roots,
The New Christs,
Urselle,
Sandy B,
La Düsseldorf,
Johnny Osbourne,
Swans,
New Order,
Scott Walker,
John Coltrane,
Dead Boys,
Royal Trux,
Peter & Gordon,
June of 44,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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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.