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 Azerbaijan and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Aswad to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Shuggie Otis,
The Monks,
The Offenders,
Derrick Morgan,
Rekid,
Blossom Toes,
A Certain Ratio,
Symarip,
Deadbeat,
T. Rex,
Peter and Kerry,
Sällskapet,
Surgeon,
Donald Byrd,
The Move,
Dead Boys,
Q65,
Echospace,
The Gories,
Yusef Lateef,
Amazonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
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Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Andrew Hill,
Patti Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
E-Dancer,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
John Cale,
The Dirtbombs,
Sandy B,
Q and Not U,
Groovy Waters,
Nirvana,
Lalann,
Mad Mike,
Fela Kuti,
Cheater Slicks,
The Monochrome Set,
The Happenings,
Neil Young,
Eurythmics,
The Cure,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Bananas,
Matthew Halsall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
John Foxx,
Dennis Brown,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hashim,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kerri Chandler,
Livin' Joy,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.