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 Kosovo and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Pagans to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Warsaw,
Soul II Soul,
Gang Gang Dance,
The American Breed,
Section 25,
The Smiths,
Pole,
EPMD,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
kango's stein massive,
Neil Young,
Todd Terry,
Connie Case,
Popol Vuh,
Bobby Womack,
World's Most,
Rufus Thomas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Misunderstood,
The Pretty Things,
OOIOO,
Lebanon Hanover,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tubeway Army,
Fatback Band,
The Gories,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Moleskins,
Make Up,
X-102,
Cheater Slicks,
Whodini,
Sandy B,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Wyatt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rotary Connection,
The Trojans,
Terrestrial Tones,
This Heat,
Brand Nubian,
Dennis Brown,
John Cale,
Gabor Szabo,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
The Dead C,
Hardrive,
Monks,
Underground Resistance,
Agent Orange,
Roy Ayers,
the Soft Cell,
Tom Boy,
MC5,
Judy Mowatt,
Arthur Verocai,
Joensuu 1685,
Kerri Chandler,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.