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 Somalia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 theremin 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 James White and The Blacks to the jazz 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Eric Copeland,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Grass Roots,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Angels of Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Monochrome Set,
Ice-T,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sparks,
Amon Düül II,
The Beau Brummels,
Royal Trux,
Quadrant,
Dawn Penn,
Television Personalities,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cramps,
Pylon,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cymande,
Barrington Levy,
One Last Wish,
The Move,
the Slits,
Todd Rundgren,
Hoover,
The New Christs,
The Residents,
Marvin Gaye,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ludus,
Ossler,
Wings,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Suicide,
The Leaves,
Rekid,
The Durutti Column,
JFA,
Michelle Simonal,
Gil Scott Heron,
ABC,
Nation of Ulysses,
Visage,
Sister Nancy,
Patti Smith,
Sugar Minott,
Massinfluence,
Q and Not U,
The Trojans,
Warren Ellis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Minutemen,
Barry Ungar,
AZ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.