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 Montenegro and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum 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 Ultra Naté to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Niagra,
The Mojo Men,
Cymande,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Faraquet,
Magma,
Rapeman,
The Remains,
Yazoo,
Lower 48,
The Modern Lovers,
Soft Machine,
Country Teasers,
Janne Schatter,
Albert Ayler,
Underground Resistance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Barbara Tucker,
Groovy Waters,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sarah Menescal,
CMW,
Sun City Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Negative Approach,
Interpol,
Scion,
Accadde A,
This Heat,
These Immortal Souls,
Ice-T,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Moleskins,
Reuben Wilson,
Alice Coltrane,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Copeland,
Gabor Szabo,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Trojans,
Susan Cadogan,
Man Parrish,
Quadrant,
Kaleidoscope,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tommy Roe,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minnie Riperton,
John Coltrane,
Pussy Galore,
Audionom,
Joe Smooth,
Bobby Sherman,
Buzzcocks,
Main Source,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.