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 Guinea and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Gories to the grunge 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
L. Decosne,
Eli Mardock,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Offenders,
The United States of America,
Ossler,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Grass Roots,
Sister Nancy,
Gang Green,
Mad Mike,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oneida,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Young Rascals,
Andrew Hill,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Dolphy,
The Velvet Underground,
Clear Light,
In Retrospect,
Funky Four + One,
Aloha Tigers,
Skriet,
Niagra,
Mission of Burma,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface,
Erykah Badu,
Shoche,
Fluxion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neu!,
Bluetip,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
H. Thieme,
Minor Threat,
Suburban Knight,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minnie Riperton,
DJ Sneak,
Juan Atkins,
The Red Krayola,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Outsiders,
Freddie Wadling,
Janne Schatter,
Terry Callier,
Smog,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
The Fugs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Donald Byrd,
AZ,
Lou Christie,
The Move,
Sparks,
Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio, Toni Rubio.
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.