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 Burundi and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Los Fastidios to the crunk 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fela Kuti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Young Marble Giants,
The Detroit Cobras,
Susan Cadogan,
Eric Copeland,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
Kenny Larkin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Chrome,
Second Layer,
Colin Newman,
kango's stein massive,
cv313,
Echospace,
X-102,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jimmy McGriff,
June of 44,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stiv Bators,
Soft Cell,
Massinfluence,
The Beau Brummels,
The Standells,
David Axelrod,
The Cure,
the Normal,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wasted Youth,
the Germs,
Faust,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pere Ubu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tomorrow,
Soul II Soul,
Talk Talk,
The Busters,
Avey Tare,
Howard Jones,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Moebius,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Delta 5,
Harmonia,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grauzone,
Absolute Body Control,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.