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 Chile and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet 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 Fad Gadget to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quadrant,
Pantaleimon,
The Sonics,
Scrapy,
Roxette,
Simply Red,
Suicide,
Hardrive,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Danielle Patucci,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kool Moe Dee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Los Fastidios,
Depeche Mode,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultra Naté,
Soul II Soul,
Hasil Adkins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lakeside,
Clear Light,
Quando Quango,
Banda Bassotti,
Bill Near,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Joe Smooth,
Freddie Wadling,
Barbara Tucker,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Smoke,
Sister Nancy,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Hood,
The Gun Club,
Boz Scaggs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Robert Wyatt,
Bobby Sherman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Busters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mo-Dettes,
Metal Thangz,
Dead Boys,
Thee Headcoats,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Main Source,
A Certain Ratio,
Brass Construction,
The Beau Brummels,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.