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 Slovenia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Rotary Connection to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Stockholm Monsters,
Young Marble Giants,
Grey Daturas,
The Mojo Men,
Aloha Tigers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lalo Schifrin,
DJ Style,
cv313,
Sparks,
The Trojans,
Grauzone,
Talk Talk,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Divine Comedy,
Cybotron,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terry Callier,
X-101,
Kayak,
Zero Boys,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Raincoats,
The Black Dice,
Blossom Toes,
Cymande,
Jacob Miller,
Country Teasers,
Connie Case,
Big Daddy Kane,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Easy Going,
Susan Cadogan,
Mars,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Loose Ends,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
David Axelrod,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rotary Connection,
June of 44,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Barrington Levy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
ABC,
Average White Band,
Robert Görl,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Moby Grape,
Drexciya,
Cheater Slicks,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.