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 Ireland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
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 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 Avey Tare to the rap 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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barrington Levy,
LL Cool J,
Soulsonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
In Retrospect,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare,
Hashim,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wasted Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul II Soul,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dave Gahan,
Trumans Water,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Real Kids,
Angry Samoans,
Gang Green,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül II,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kas Product,
K-Klass,
Blake Baxter,
Sister Nancy,
Visage,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Juan Atkins,
Sparks,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Cameo,
Fear,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jesper Dahlback,
Altered Images,
Drexciya,
Quando Quango,
Lucky Dragons,
The Velvet Underground,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fad Gadget,
Lee Hazlewood,
Donny Hathaway,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
B.T. Express,
Ultra Naté,
Girls At Our Best!,
Todd Terry,
Schoolly D,
the Human League,
The Music Machine,
Cheater Slicks,
Judy Mowatt,
Todd Rundgren,
Arthur Verocai,
Livin' Joy,
Sun City Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec, Pantytec.
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.