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 Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Moss Icon to the funk 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Blake Baxter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Johnny Clarke,
Boz Scaggs,
Rakim,
Oblivians,
The Blues Magoos,
Bang On A Can,
Fear,
Kas Product,
The Grass Roots,
Sparks,
Sun City Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Robert Görl,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
D'Angelo,
Intrusion,
Mark Hollis,
Gichy Dan,
Dave Gahan,
LL Cool J,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Tom Boy,
Sam Rivers,
The Names,
Bill Wells,
James White and The Blacks,
Aswad,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visage,
Metal Thangz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Todd Terry,
The Monochrome Set,
Minor Threat,
Whodini,
Eurythmics,
Cluster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Godley & Creme,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Cramps,
Amon Düül,
Carl Craig,
X-102,
Boogie Down Productions,
Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Busters,
Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock, Sonny Sharrock.
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.