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 Guyana and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Kinks to the grunge 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Urselle,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Thee Headcoats,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Shuggie Otis,
Skaos,
Rites of Spring,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Moody Blues,
Anakelly,
Idris Muhammad,
The Barracudas,
The Kinks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Average White Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Jeff Lynne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fugazi,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Bananas,
Schoolly D,
Peter & Gordon,
Warsaw,
Scan 7,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang Green,
Fluxion,
John Lydon,
Ludus,
Oneida,
Flash Fearless,
Black Flag,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül II,
Magma,
Avey Tare,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Intrusion,
Guru Guru,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nico,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Barry Ungar,
Delta 5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cluster,
Crooked Eye,
Jandek,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Music Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thompson Twins,
June of 44,
Sound Behaviour,
X-102,
Soul II Soul,
Brand Nubian,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.