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 Malta and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mo-Dettes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
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,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Das Ding,
Marmalade,
Altered Images,
Youth Brigade,
Hardrive,
The Cramps,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Remains,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bang On A Can,
The Moody Blues,
The Techniques,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Basic Channel,
Crime,
Aural Exciters,
Maurizio,
T.S.O.L.,
Funkadelic,
Swell Maps,
Kas Product,
X-102,
Roxy Music,
Marine Girls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gichy Dan,
Radiohead,
Rekid,
Ponytail,
The Victims,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
Arab on Radar,
Derrick Morgan,
cv313,
Goldenarms,
Public Enemy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Suburban Knight,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Max Romeo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stetsasonic,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Blackbyrds,
the Germs,
Gang Green,
Cymande,
Flipper,
L. Decosne,
Au Pairs,
Make Up,
the Human League,
Ituana,
Minor Threat,
UT,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.