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 Australia and from Philadelphia.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Basic Channel to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Main Source,
Yazoo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marmalade,
Lucky Dragons,
Matthew Halsall,
Josef K,
Connie Case,
Alphaville,
Technova,
Agitation Free,
PIL,
Kerri Chandler,
Crime,
Barbara Tucker,
The Young Rascals,
Oneida,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fear,
Drexciya,
Alton Ellis,
EPMD,
Robert Wyatt,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Quantec,
Newcleus,
Jacob Miller,
Mark Hollis,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Black Flag,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kerrie Biddell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Johnny Osbourne,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
Animal Collective,
ABC,
the Association,
Maurizio,
Country Teasers,
Niagra,
DJ Sneak,
The Fortunes,
A Certain Ratio,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Smiths,
Gerry Rafferty,
James White and The Blacks,
The Stooges,
Arcadia,
Nick Fraelich,
Inner City,
Oblivians,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.