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 Croatia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Matthew Halsall to the techno 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Con Funk Shun tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Josef K record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Bluetip,
Clear Light,
Terrestrial Tones,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers,
The Modern Lovers,
Roger Hodgson,
Interpol,
Eric Copeland,
Nas,
Skriet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeff Lynne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eden Ahbez,
Bad Manners,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Anakelly,
Arcadia,
The Wake,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gun Club,
The Walker Brothers,
Delta 5,
X-102,
Surgeon,
Avey Tare,
Nik Kershaw,
Desert Stars,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band,
Talk Talk,
Prince Buster,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
JFA,
Basic Channel,
Motorama,
Matthew Halsall,
Colin Newman,
LL Cool J,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Khruangbin,
Fat Boys,
Cameo,
Kevin Saunderson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Divine Comedy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Circle Jerks,
Excepter,
Maleditus Sound,
Q and Not U,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.