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 New Zealand and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
These Immortal Souls,
Althea and Donna,
John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
Von Mondo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hot Snakes,
Flash Fearless,
Intrusion,
Arcadia,
Robert Wyatt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
In Retrospect,
Yaz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
June Days,
Deakin,
Amazonics,
Jeff Lynne,
Albert Ayler,
Archie Shepp,
Crime,
Moby Grape,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fuzztones,
Howard Jones,
Tears for Fears,
The Standells,
E-Dancer,
Talk Talk,
Pantaleimon,
David Bowie,
The Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Janne Schatter,
Black Moon,
The Victims,
Yazoo,
Kaleidoscope,
Royal Trux,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Babytalk,
Arthur Verocai,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stiv Bators,
Lungfish,
Surgeon,
David Axelrod,
Lightning Bolt,
This Heat,
Simply Red,
kango's stein massive,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
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.