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 Slovakia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Duran Duran to the disco 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection 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?
Country Teasers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dead C,
The Durutti Column,
James White and The Blacks,
cv313,
Flipper,
Ten City,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fear,
Brass Construction,
Yusef Lateef,
Graham Central Station,
The Shadows of Knight,
The United States of America,
Circle Jerks,
Max Romeo,
Can,
48th St. Collective,
Mandrill,
The Evens,
Visage,
Warren Ellis,
Sällskapet,
Amon Düül II,
Todd Terry,
Prince Buster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
the Soft Cell,
Reagan Youth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Scan 7,
Ultravox,
Mars,
The Searchers,
Organ,
Josef K,
Faraquet,
the Human League,
Suicide,
Nico,
T.S.O.L.,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Monochrome Set,
Brick,
Gichy Dan,
Joey Negro,
The Associates,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Eddi Front,
Yellowson,
Panda Bear,
Drexciya,
Matthew Halsall,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bluetip,
The Move,
Wire,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.