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 Bulgaria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Alice Coltrane to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Doors. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Maleditus Sound,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Reed,
Thee Headcoats,
Dual Sessions,
Young Marble Giants,
A Certain Ratio,
Motorama,
the Germs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rosa Yemen,
Newcleus,
New Order,
Yusef Lateef,
Suicide,
Scion,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Essential Logic,
Alton Ellis,
The Smiths,
Sexual Harrassment,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Circle Jerks,
PIL,
The Associates,
Sixth Finger,
Black Flag,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lalo Schifrin,
Donald Byrd,
Alice Coltrane,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eli Mardock,
Soulsonic Force,
Kevin Saunderson,
Qualms,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
OOIOO,
The Busters,
Erykah Badu,
Kenny Larkin,
H. Thieme,
Average White Band,
The Toasters,
Blancmange,
Nico,
Von Mondo,
Susan Cadogan,
Joyce Sims,
Marcia Griffiths,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ralphi Rosario,
Stetsasonic,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.