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 St Lucia and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the dance 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The United States of America,
Howard Jones,
Rufus Thomas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donny Hathaway,
The Motions,
Shoche,
Ohio Players,
Barbara Tucker,
Royal Trux,
Accadde A,
Negative Approach,
Boz Scaggs,
Kaleidoscope,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aural Exciters,
Sex Pistols,
Donald Byrd,
Sällskapet,
Pussy Galore,
Matthew Bourne,
Symarip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Move,
MC5,
Sonny Sharrock,
Q and Not U,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gang Starr,
Tubeway Army,
Thompson Twins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sun Ra,
New York Dolls,
Inner City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Monks,
Bootsy Collins,
Newcleus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Saccharine Trust,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The New Christs,
Amazonics,
Agitation Free,
The Music Machine,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Residents,
Nils Olav,
Monolake,
The Skatalites,
Brick,
Cybotron,
Henry Cow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Drexciya,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Siglo XX,
Lalann,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.