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 Guinea and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ituana to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
LL Cool J,
The Music Machine,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Moon,
The Victims,
The Monochrome Set,
Joe Smooth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Darondo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sex Pistols,
Grey Daturas,
Roy Ayers,
Sugar Minott,
The Dead C,
Gang Gang Dance,
Anthony Braxton,
Hoover,
Sixth Finger,
Thee Headcoats,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bob Dylan,
Jimmy McGriff,
cv313,
Warsaw,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roxy Music,
Lungfish,
Vladislav Delay,
Angry Samoans,
The Litter,
The Toasters,
R.M.O.,
Pantytec,
The Cure,
X-Ray Spex,
Man Parrish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Flipper,
Barrington Levy,
The Gories,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maleditus Sound,
Todd Terry,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joensuu 1685,
Gang of Four,
Deakin,
Nils Olav,
Loose Ends,
Faust,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mark Hollis,
Crash Course in Science,
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.