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 Norway and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 to the jazz 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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
The Beau Brummels,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Accadde A,
Marc Almond,
Cal Tjader,
Piero Umiliani,
Bill Wells,
Roxy Music,
The Dead C,
Ronan,
Amon Düül II,
The Offenders,
The Pretty Things,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sarah Menescal,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wasted Youth,
Sun Ra,
Byron Stingily,
Goldenarms,
Reagan Youth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Connie Case,
Lower 48,
The Moody Blues,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Quadrant,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick May,
Judy Mowatt,
Flash Fearless,
Pulsallama,
Soulsonic Force,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Malaria!,
Gang of Four,
Average White Band,
Idris Muhammad,
Monks,
The Remains,
The Cramps,
Marmalade,
Soul II Soul,
Interpol,
Gichy Dan,
Oneida,
The Wake,
La Düsseldorf,
Junior Murvin,
Delta 5,
World's Most,
Robert Wyatt,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Barracudas,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Womack,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.