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 Libya and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Sandy B to the crunk 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 Fat Boys. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Quadrant,
Tubeway Army,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Metal Thangz,
Bang On A Can,
Iggy Pop,
Yaz,
Soulsonic Force,
The Smoke,
Vainqueur,
Agitation Free,
The Blues Magoos,
Sam Rivers,
The Count Five,
Moebius,
Alice Coltrane,
Fela Kuti,
The Gap Band,
Minny Pops,
Negative Approach,
Rites of Spring,
Agent Orange,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
Scientists,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nico,
Delta 5,
E-Dancer,
The Evens,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fortunes,
The Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
Reuben Wilson,
The Vogues,
Joe Finger,
Cameo,
Terry Callier,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Soft Machine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Los Fastidios,
CMW,
Kas Product,
Crash Course in Science,
Dennis Brown,
In Retrospect,
The Raincoats,
Soft Cell,
The Real Kids,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Lydon,
Ultra Naté,
Chrome,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.