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 Tonga and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ossler to the grunge 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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul II Soul 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Associates,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camouflage,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bill Near,
The Blues Magoos,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stockholm Monsters,
Chris & Cosey,
New Age Steppers,
the Slits,
Magazine,
Chris Corsano,
X-102,
Brass Construction,
Fugazi,
Don Cherry,
Althea and Donna,
Negative Approach,
Erykah Badu,
The Gap Band,
Danielle Patucci,
X-Ray Spex,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharoah Sanders,
Pylon,
Y Pants,
Black Flag,
Aloha Tigers,
Funky Four + One,
Reagan Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barbara Tucker,
Inner City,
Warren Ellis,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
B.T. Express,
Can,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Misunderstood,
Brand Nubian,
Smog,
Marvin Gaye,
Average White Band,
ABBA,
Icehouse,
Carl Craig,
Joey Negro,
Terry Callier,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bill Wells,
Symarip,
Neil Young,
Tom Boy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Matthew Halsall,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.