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 Taiwan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Howard Jones to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Silicon Teens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Morten Harket,
Maurizio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The United States of America,
Rufus Thomas,
The Evens,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bush Tetras,
the Slits,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Cale,
ABBA,
The Cure,
Wire,
Pierre Henry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ice-T,
Schoolly D,
Glenn Branca,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Minny Pops,
Frankie Knuckles,
Freddie Wadling,
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nik Kershaw,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crooked Eye,
Bad Manners,
Royal Trux,
Harry Pussy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Cluster,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Lydon,
Lakeside,
Fluxion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Barbara Tucker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sixth Finger,
Animal Collective,
Darondo,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang of Four,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Litter,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.