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 Kenya and from Glasgow.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin 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 Lalo Schifrin to the electroclash 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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Nico,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Walker Brothers,
Deakin,
Yellowson,
Intrusion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Duran Duran,
Lakeside,
Rites of Spring,
Maurizio,
Mad Mike,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cecil Taylor,
The Stooges,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Smog,
Funkadelic,
The Seeds,
Erykah Badu,
Soul II Soul,
New Age Steppers,
Ludus,
Avey Tare,
The Dead C,
Depeche Mode,
Lou Reed,
Soulsonic Force,
Niagra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Andrew Hill,
Aaron Thompson,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Siglo XX,
Monolake,
The Smoke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monks,
Black Flag,
Steve Hackett,
Sugar Minott,
Ponytail,
Technova,
Crispy Ambulance,
Wasted Youth,
Marvin Gaye,
Johnny Clarke,
The Moleskins,
The Music Machine,
Roger Hodgson,
FM Einheit,
The Motions, The Motions, The Motions, The Motions.
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.