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 Hungary and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Brass Construction to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Susan Cadogan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Malaria! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Das Ding,
Magma,
Jacob Miller,
Scratch Acid,
Half Japanese,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Ultra Naté,
Sixth Finger,
Ornette Coleman,
Swans,
Camberwell Now,
Lightning Bolt,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter & Gordon,
Erykah Badu,
The Doors,
John Cale,
Max Romeo,
Metal Thangz,
Michelle Simonal,
Neil Young,
Loose Ends,
Cymande,
Junior Murvin,
Fugazi,
Black Flag,
The Walker Brothers,
Tomorrow,
Alton Ellis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Excepter,
Hashim,
Tres Demented,
Shuggie Otis,
Agent Orange,
Surgeon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Japan,
Stereo Dub,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun Ra,
Lucky Dragons,
Arcadia,
Roxy Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Chris & Cosey,
The Buckinghams,
Malaria!,
cv313,
David Bowie,
Deepchord,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Deakin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.