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 Ghana and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grime 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Tubeway Army,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Electric Prunes,
Crash Course in Science,
Todd Terry,
Eurythmics,
New Age Steppers,
Smog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Con Funk Shun,
Ultravox,
Drive Like Jehu,
Desert Stars,
Dave Gahan,
China Crisis,
Isaac Hayes,
The Grass Roots,
JFA,
Henry Cow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Iggy Pop,
Grauzone,
Funky Four + One,
Eve St. Jones,
Warren Ellis,
Scion,
Stereo Dub,
Rod Modell,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Das Ding,
Kayak,
Lalann,
Quadrant,
Jeru the Damaja,
Parry Music,
Jerry's Kids,
Minor Threat,
Tommy Roe,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bobby Womack,
The Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Negative Approach,
Derrick May,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
Don Cherry,
Agent Orange,
Crime,
Bob Dylan,
Silicon Teens,
Yaz,
Electric Prunes,
The Vogues,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Man Parrish,
The Busters,
One Last Wish,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.