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 Thailand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Grandmaster Flash to the punk 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Skaos,
The Happenings,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tubeway Army,
Banda Bassotti,
Roxy Music,
Kaleidoscope,
Rotary Connection,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Wasted Youth,
Scott Walker,
Dark Day,
Lee Hazlewood,
Infiniti,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nick Fraelich,
The Velvet Underground,
The Slackers,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultravox,
Joensuu 1685,
Laurel Aitken,
Aloha Tigers,
Parry Music,
Fela Kuti,
Mantronix,
Iggy Pop,
David McCallum,
The Leaves,
Bronski Beat,
Jimmy McGriff,
Technova,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Stockholm Monsters,
T.S.O.L.,
Suburban Knight,
Cybotron,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Shadows of Knight,
The United States of America,
Kool Moe Dee,
CMW,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
OOIOO,
The Tremeloes,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Susan Cadogan,
The New Christs,
Freddie Wadling,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soulsonic Force,
Outsiders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lucky Dragons,
ABC,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eddi Front,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.