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 Peru and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 guitar 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 The Shadows of Knight to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Von Mondo,
Sixth Finger,
X-Ray Spex,
Minnie Riperton,
The Angels of Light,
10cc,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharoah Sanders,
Yellowson,
Yusef Lateef,
AZ,
Crime,
Spoonie Gee,
MC5,
Carl Craig,
Nick Fraelich,
Pierre Henry,
The Neon Judgement,
Essential Logic,
Wasted Youth,
OOIOO,
Joyce Sims,
Radiohead,
The Residents,
Goldenarms,
Massinfluence,
Flash Fearless,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hot Snakes,
Black Moon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
Crash Course in Science,
Lightning Bolt,
Roger Hodgson,
Robert Görl,
The Walker Brothers,
Slave,
The Victims,
Amazonics,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalo Schifrin,
Iggy Pop,
David McCallum,
The Monks,
Bootsy Collins,
L. Decosne,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Zeros,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funky Four + One,
the Association,
Anakelly,
Skaos,
Public Enemy,
Procol Harum,
The American Breed,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Man Parrish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.