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 Spain and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Leaves to the disco 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 Niagra. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Scan 7,
Kas Product,
Roy Ayers,
Marmalade,
Mo-Dettes,
The Wake,
Barrington Levy,
Janne Schatter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wally Richardson,
Joe Finger,
Section 25,
Magma,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fortunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Blake Baxter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crime,
The Electric Prunes,
The Pretty Things,
Unrelated Segments,
The Black Dice,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultimate Spinach,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Flash Fearless,
Quantec,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Kinks,
Q and Not U,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Guru Guru,
Model 500,
Wasted Youth,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jeff Lynne,
Mark Hollis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sister Nancy,
John Holt,
Rufus Thomas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Radio Birdman,
R.M.O.,
Livin' Joy,
Harmonia,
Pierre Henry,
Gong,
In Retrospect,
Fluxion,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
the Normal,
Monolake,
Y Pants,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.