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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
OOIOO,
Archie Shepp,
John Lydon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lakeside,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Letta Mbulu,
Jeff Lynne,
Sun Ra,
the Bar-Kays,
a-ha,
Soulsonic Force,
Ken Boothe,
Big Daddy Kane,
Freddie Wadling,
Donald Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
Livin' Joy,
The Golliwogs,
Kenny Larkin,
the Soft Cell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oneida,
Junior Murvin,
Scion,
The Mojo Men,
The Monochrome Set,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Roxy Music,
Absolute Body Control,
Magma,
The Music Machine,
JFA,
Rapeman,
Make Up,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dawn Penn,
Ornette Coleman,
Rod Modell,
Todd Terry,
Icehouse,
Cheater Slicks,
10cc,
The Fortunes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wolf Eyes,
Schoolly D,
Loose Ends,
DJ Sneak,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Donny Hathaway,
Gabor Szabo,
B.T. Express,
Todd Rundgren,
Q65,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.