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 Bolivia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Axelrod,
Cluster,
Nik Kershaw,
This Heat,
The Slackers,
Eurythmics,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jeff Lynne,
Grey Daturas,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Desert Stars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Moss Icon,
The Divine Comedy,
Donny Hathaway,
Gang Starr,
Buzzcocks,
Tommy Roe,
Bad Manners,
Terry Callier,
Arcadia,
The Monks,
Letta Mbulu,
Negative Approach,
Cymande,
Aswad,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visage,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Delon & Dalcan,
Das Ding,
Tres Demented,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Bourne,
Goldenarms,
Rod Modell,
Moebius,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Copeland,
Sixth Finger,
Boredoms,
Flash Fearless,
Khruangbin,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharoah Sanders,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.