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 Maldives and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 organ 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 Fat Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip 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 808 and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Nico,
Roy Ayers,
Guru Guru,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sällskapet,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Skarface,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scion,
Panda Bear,
Pagans,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeru the Damaja,
Niagra,
Scan 7,
Talk Talk,
Angry Samoans,
The Motions,
Marmalade,
The Move,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Wally Richardson,
World's Most,
Bluetip,
Negative Approach,
The American Breed,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Royal Trux,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Youth Brigade,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eli Mardock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
Make Up,
Oblivians,
Blossom Toes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Outsiders,
Piero Umiliani,
The Evens,
Black Sheep,
Faraquet,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jandek,
Popol Vuh,
Marvin Gaye,
Arthur Verocai,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Smog,
the Sonics,
Bobby Sherman,
The Doors,
Pere Ubu,
Pet Shop Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock 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.