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 Nauru 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Mexico City.
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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Trumans Water to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Rufus Thomas,
Outsiders,
Bill Wells,
Reuben Wilson,
Lightning Bolt,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
Easy Going,
Ice-T,
The Barracudas,
Lalann,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Carl Craig,
8 Eyed Spy,
Deepchord,
John Lydon,
Susan Cadogan,
Donny Hathaway,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Byrd,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Names,
Animal Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sonic Youth,
Moss Icon,
Thompson Twins,
Althea and Donna,
Blancmange,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Angels of Light,
Vainqueur,
Kenny Larkin,
Supertramp,
Whodini,
Roxy Music,
Colin Newman,
The Move,
Marc Almond,
Fifty Foot Hose,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dual Sessions,
X-102,
Traffic Nightmare,
Clear Light,
China Crisis,
Zapp,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Wyatt,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Shoche,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anakelly,
Gil Scott Heron,
Trumans Water,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Essential Logic,
Brass Construction,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.