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 Syria and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Tres Demented to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
The Mojo Men,
Amon Düül II,
Metal Thangz,
The Beau Brummels,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Sonics,
Fluxion,
K-Klass,
Goldenarms,
Mad Mike,
Sugar Minott,
Hashim,
Chris Corsano,
Lungfish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dirtbombs,
Cal Tjader,
Nick Fraelich,
Tommy Roe,
Byron Stingily,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Roger Hodgson,
Anakelly,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soul II Soul,
Country Teasers,
PIL,
Donny Hathaway,
Lucky Dragons,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
L. Decosne,
Quando Quango,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter & Gordon,
Joe Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Yusef Lateef,
Wolf Eyes,
Amon Düül,
Mark Hollis,
ABBA,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Das Ding,
Anthony Braxton,
Morten Harket,
Eurythmics,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
The Moleskins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kaleidoscope,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.