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 Jamaica and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mojo Men to the jazz 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Freddie Wadling,
Negative Approach,
Idris Muhammad,
Grey Daturas,
Peter and Kerry,
Soulsonic Force,
Tommy Roe,
UT,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cal Tjader,
Drexciya,
Erykah Badu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Juan Atkins,
Dark Day,
Roxette,
Skriet,
The Mojo Men,
Q65,
The Dead C,
Young Marble Giants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Supertramp,
The Move,
Skarface,
Kayak,
Warren Ellis,
Kurtis Blow,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chris & Cosey,
The Wake,
The Evens,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bill Near,
Bob Dylan,
Roxy Music,
Hoover,
Shoche,
Robert Wyatt,
Monolake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Scan 7,
Girls At Our Best!,
Reuben Wilson,
Wally Richardson,
Loose Ends,
Arab on Radar,
Big Daddy Kane,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Womack,
cv313,
The Barracudas,
Index,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
John Cale,
Fear,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.