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 Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 The Leaves to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Althea and Donna,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul II Soul,
Smog,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harpers Bizarre,
Terry Callier,
Alton Ellis,
Cecil Taylor,
Angry Samoans,
Urselle,
Fat Boys,
Johnny Clarke,
Soulsonic Force,
Pierre Henry,
Excepter,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Knickerbockers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Jawbox,
Clear Light,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Pantaleimon,
John Lydon,
Oblivians,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scan 7,
The Flesh Eaters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The New Christs,
Danielle Patucci,
Brand Nubian,
Cluster,
Niagra,
MDC,
Sunsets and Hearts,
48th St. Collective,
Alphaville,
Maurizio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grauzone,
Moebius,
Jandek,
Piero Umiliani,
Michelle Simonal,
Swell Maps,
Deepchord,
Bobby Sherman,
Q and Not U,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mojo Men,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.