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 Poland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Jawbox to the funk 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
10cc,
Arthur Verocai,
John Lydon,
the Association,
Matthew Bourne,
Jeru the Damaja,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Green,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Anakelly,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Leonard Cohen,
Minor Threat,
The Gun Club,
The Standells,
The Slits,
The Smoke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Grey Daturas,
Toni Rubio,
Lee Hazlewood,
Frankie Knuckles,
Black Flag,
In Retrospect,
James Chance & The Contortions,
D'Angelo,
Flipper,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vladislav Delay,
Dawn Penn,
Flash Fearless,
The Saints,
The Move,
Whodini,
Barrington Levy,
Jerry's Kids,
Excepter,
Robert Görl,
Skarface,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mantronix,
Sparks,
Janne Schatter,
Fad Gadget,
Swell Maps,
Los Fastidios,
Deepchord,
Khruangbin,
Bush Tetras,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
John Coltrane,
David Bowie,
Neu!,
Quando Quango,
Todd Terry,
Kerri Chandler,
Don Cherry,
Slick Rick,
Unwound,
Faraquet,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.