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 Rwanda and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ponytail to the jazz 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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Golliwogs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blossom Toes,
Talk Talk,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Swell Maps,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Lungfish,
Monks,
Cameo,
the Association,
Negative Approach,
Kaleidoscope,
AZ,
OOIOO,
The Tremeloes,
Main Source,
Mantronix,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Bourne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sight & Sound,
Shuggie Otis,
Visage,
Don Cherry,
Gang Gang Dance,
Joey Negro,
Youth Brigade,
Yaz,
Interpol,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gang of Four,
Clear Light,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Modern Lovers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Laurel Aitken,
The Angels of Light,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Residents,
The Moleskins,
Japan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
John Lydon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soft Cell,
Terry Callier,
Unwound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Massinfluence,
The Offenders,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
The Move,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Donald Byrd,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.