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 Madagascar and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare 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 Fortunes to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Camberwell Now,
Dawn Penn,
Lalo Schifrin,
James White and The Blacks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Black Moon,
Second Layer,
Cecil Taylor,
Visage,
H. Thieme,
The Durutti Column,
Roxy Music,
Ronnie Foster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Symarip,
Mars,
Circle Jerks,
CMW,
Susan Cadogan,
Donny Hathaway,
Swans,
Eric Copeland,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Dave Gahan,
Thompson Twins,
Agitation Free,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
La Düsseldorf,
Sonic Youth,
Wasted Youth,
Pere Ubu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Avey Tare,
Arab on Radar,
cv313,
Average White Band,
Harmonia,
Pole,
Delon & Dalcan,
The American Breed,
Fela Kuti,
Desert Stars,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brass Construction,
Scion,
Sister Nancy,
Suicide,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Essential Logic,
Mark Hollis,
Accadde A,
Piero Umiliani,
Groovy Waters,
Metal Thangz,
Jawbox,
Country Teasers,
The Litter,
Stereo Dub,
The Evens,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.