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 Somalia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the disco 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt 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?
Archie Shepp,
The Toasters,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Human League,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed,
Joe Smooth,
U.S. Maple,
Simply Red,
Newcleus,
Crispian St. Peters,
Reuben Wilson,
Sparks,
Japan,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Wyatt,
Guru Guru,
The Slits,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Funkadelic,
Sound Behaviour,
World's Most,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dawn Penn,
Bill Near,
The Dirtbombs,
The Beau Brummels,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Moleskins,
Soul II Soul,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
JFA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
La Düsseldorf,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wire,
Sonny Sharrock,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Supertramp,
Magma,
The Gap Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Techniques,
Mad Mike,
The Barracudas,
Make Up,
Lakeside,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Names,
The Count Five,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.