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 Paraguay and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Cal Tjader to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Essential Logic,
Cheater Slicks,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
K-Klass,
Soulsonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wire,
Sandy B,
Brand Nubian,
ABBA,
Pagans,
June of 44,
Robert Hood,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camberwell Now,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Toasters,
DJ Style,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kenny Larkin,
Dave Gahan,
Jandek,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
B.T. Express,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Moon,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Zapp,
Ossler,
Tom Boy,
Thompson Twins,
Grauzone,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Model 500,
Joe Finger,
June Days,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Derrick Morgan,
Rufus Thomas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Television Personalities,
In Retrospect,
Barclay James Harvest,
Franke,
David Bowie,
Ten City,
Royal Trux,
Darondo,
The Tremeloes,
Magazine,
Rotary Connection,
Joe Smooth,
Chris & Cosey,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.