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 Philippines and from Accra.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Radiohead 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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Alton Ellis,
Stiv Bators,
Nas,
Ultra Naté,
The Red Krayola,
Pierre Henry,
T. Rex,
Scrapy,
Whodini,
Pussy Galore,
The Vogues,
The Durutti Column,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jacob Miller,
The Velvet Underground,
Agitation Free,
Youth Brigade,
Interpol,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
The New Christs,
Scientists,
Flipper,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fuzztones,
Dawn Penn,
Gerry Rafferty,
Public Image Ltd.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Popol Vuh,
Minor Threat,
Marc Almond,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
a-ha,
Peter & Gordon,
James White and The Blacks,
Accadde A,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott Heron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sister Nancy,
The Slackers,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Association,
Chris & Cosey,
Davy DMX,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slave,
Sonny Sharrock,
Intrusion,
Bobby Sherman,
Ronnie Foster,
Kerrie Biddell,
Guru Guru,
the Fania All-Stars,
Oneida,
Man Parrish,
Rakim,
Inner City,
Sun City Girls,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.