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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the rock 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Jawbox,
New York Dolls,
Lightning Bolt,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Crime,
Jeru the Damaja,
Los Fastidios,
Lalann,
Anakelly,
Dual Sessions,
Depeche Mode,
Gichy Dan,
Fear,
Max Romeo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rakim,
Kas Product,
CMW,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Derrick Morgan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Flipper,
T. Rex,
Grey Daturas,
Drexciya,
Magma,
The Knickerbockers,
U.S. Maple,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Intrusion,
The Martian,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Blackbyrds,
Grauzone,
Franke,
The Neon Judgement,
Gang Gang Dance,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker,
Con Funk Shun,
The Golliwogs,
The Durutti Column,
Japan,
Godley & Creme,
Dark Day,
Wire,
Boredoms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cameo,
Sällskapet,
Hashim,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.