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 Sudan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 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 Eric Dolphy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Young Marble Giants 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?
Letta Mbulu,
Delta 5,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Intrusion,
Lightning Bolt,
Grauzone,
Lower 48,
Cal Tjader,
Gabor Szabo,
Grey Daturas,
Country Teasers,
The American Breed,
Eddi Front,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Womack,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Birthday Party,
Stockholm Monsters,
Sixth Finger,
Zapp,
Boogie Down Productions,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiohead,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Yazoo,
The Trojans,
The Red Krayola,
Matthew Bourne,
The Smoke,
The Invisible,
Quantec,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hashim,
Robert Wyatt,
Joy Division,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Bowie,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pere Ubu,
Eden Ahbez,
Blossom Toes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Liliput,
Tommy Roe,
Bush Tetras,
Franke,
Todd Rundgren,
Accadde A,
Suburban Knight,
Jesper Dahlback,
Altered Images,
Brand Nubian,
Ten City,
The Five Americans,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
Sex Pistols,
Marc Almond,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.