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 Dominican Republic and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
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 Dennis Brown to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Associates,
Altered Images,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flipper,
Hashim,
Carl Craig,
John Cale,
Joy Division,
Basic Channel,
Bootsy Collins,
Hoover,
Arthur Verocai,
Donny Hathaway,
Lightning Bolt,
Pussy Galore,
Japan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
Siglo XX,
Yellowson,
June Days,
The Skatalites,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yusef Lateef,
Pulsallama,
Brick,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gregory Isaacs,
K-Klass,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Birthday Party,
Wings,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Offenders,
Marine Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barbara Tucker,
Zero Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
Steve Hackett,
Arcadia,
Isaac Hayes,
MDC,
T.S.O.L.,
Swans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Chris & Cosey,
Kerrie Biddell,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Average White Band,
Iggy Pop,
The New Christs,
Skarface,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
The Sound,
Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.