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 Estonia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dark Day to the funk 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Davy DMX,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Womack,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Red Krayola,
Reagan Youth,
The Remains,
Donny Hathaway,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mr. Review,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Aaron Thompson,
Blancmange,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fortunes,
X-101,
CMW,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sight & Sound,
Flipper,
The Invisible,
Chris Corsano,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Shuggie Otis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marine Girls,
Warren Ellis,
The Angels of Light,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Modern Lovers,
Von Mondo,
Pussy Galore,
Unwound,
Bang On A Can,
The Cramps,
Scientists,
Josef K,
Sparks,
The New Christs,
David Bowie,
Y Pants,
Juan Atkins,
Shoche,
Nas,
Liliput,
Brass Construction,
Ituana,
Supertramp,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Harry Pussy,
Schoolly D,
X-Ray Spex,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Accadde A,
Wally Richardson,
Oneida,
Audionom,
The Residents,
The Knickerbockers,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.