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 Burkina and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Dawn Penn to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Bob Dylan,
UT,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Index,
Sixth Finger,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Copeland,
the Swans,
Ultimate Spinach,
David McCallum,
Sound Behaviour,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mission of Burma,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
a-ha,
The Skatalites,
The Fall,
Pole,
Blancmange,
Juan Atkins,
Bronski Beat,
The Cure,
This Heat,
Theoretical Girls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Moss Icon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Slits,
Kas Product,
Tubeway Army,
Bush Tetras,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang of Four,
These Immortal Souls,
Alice Coltrane,
Joensuu 1685,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Sight & Sound,
Eddi Front,
Kayak,
Jerry's Kids,
Leonard Cohen,
Marmalade,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jandek,
Mantronix,
Nas,
The Blues Magoos,
Connie Case,
The Modern Lovers,
Swell Maps,
Patti Smith,
John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
kango's stein massive,
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.