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 Israel and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hashim to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra 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 chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yazoo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ponytail,
The Real Kids,
Babytalk,
Ronan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hasil Adkins,
Whodini,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
FM Einheit,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ultravox,
Marmalade,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Bourne,
Lucky Dragons,
Unwound,
Dawn Penn,
Peter and Kerry,
Marcia Griffiths,
David Bowie,
Jerry's Kids,
Darondo,
Lindisfarne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Negative Approach,
Scientists,
Altered Images,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Lydon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Organ,
Buzzcocks,
Al Stewart,
Faraquet,
Agitation Free,
Albert Ayler,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fortunes,
Khruangbin,
Blake Baxter,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Womack,
One Last Wish,
Symarip,
The Moody Blues,
Kerri Chandler,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Shoche,
the Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
James White and The Blacks,
Eli Mardock,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.