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 Chile and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba 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 güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Stiv Bators,
Circle Jerks,
Moebius,
The Durutti Column,
Pagans,
Colin Newman,
These Immortal Souls,
Heaven 17,
Simply Red,
Flamin' Groovies,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cymande,
Lalo Schifrin,
Blake Baxter,
Magazine,
The Black Dice,
Charles Mingus,
Fad Gadget,
Delta 5,
Wolf Eyes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
A Certain Ratio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Joyce Sims,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
One Last Wish,
Brass Construction,
Eric Copeland,
Little Man,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kerrie Biddell,
EPMD,
Freddie Wadling,
Glenn Branca,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Machine,
Outsiders,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Angels of Light,
Camberwell Now,
Slick Rick,
Gang Green,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rakim,
The Grass Roots,
K-Klass,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Leonard Cohen,
Gabor Szabo,
The Modern Lovers,
Ten City,
Mo-Dettes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Piero Umiliani,
Faraquet,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Soft Cell,
Japan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.