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 Mexico and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Mandrill to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
CMW,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang of Four,
OOIOO,
Sandy B,
Donny Hathaway,
Sister Nancy,
Yaz,
Avey Tare,
Bootsy Collins,
The Sound,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radio Birdman,
48th St. Collective,
The Busters,
Model 500,
The Residents,
The Gap Band,
Ituana,
Brass Construction,
Max Romeo,
The Angels of Light,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Los Fastidios,
Quando Quango,
The Vogues,
The Last Poets,
The Fire Engines,
D'Angelo,
Matthew Halsall,
The Buckinghams,
These Immortal Souls,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jandek,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Spandau Ballet,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Morten Harket,
Junior Murvin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Trumans Water,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Black Flag,
Von Mondo,
Siglo XX,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Althea and Donna,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Cymande,
Flipper,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kenny Larkin,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.