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 Mauritius and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Echospace to the electroclash 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeru the Damaja 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Bush Tetras,
Camouflage,
The Last Poets,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
John Lydon,
Black Flag,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ossler,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thompson Twins,
Pierre Henry,
The Smiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Chris Corsano,
Adolescents,
Todd Terry,
Vainqueur,
Joyce Sims,
Barrington Levy,
The Slackers,
The Dirtbombs,
Franke,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Swans,
Das Ding,
The Invisible,
Eli Mardock,
Lalo Schifrin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Electric Prunes,
Young Marble Giants,
The Gladiators,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
The Litter,
Malaria!,
Procol Harum,
The Selecter,
Marc Almond,
Pantytec,
Banda Bassotti,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Chris & Cosey,
Yaz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camberwell Now,
Sugar Minott,
The Neon Judgement,
Radiohead,
Kaleidoscope,
The Young Rascals,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
T.S.O.L.,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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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.