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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Toasters to the grime 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
The Fuzztones,
World's Most,
Cymande,
Soft Machine,
Japan,
Popol Vuh,
Moss Icon,
The Doors,
AZ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crooked Eye,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Y Pants,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Silicon Teens,
June of 44,
Eli Mardock,
Fugazi,
Dorothy Ashby,
Grey Daturas,
Pole,
John Coltrane,
Oneida,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dawn Penn,
The Barracudas,
Stetsasonic,
Television,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sandy B,
The Stooges,
Warren Ellis,
The Moody Blues,
Slick Rick,
A Certain Ratio,
Donald Byrd,
The Golliwogs,
Dark Day,
The Tremeloes,
Wings,
Robert Görl,
Maurizio,
Flash Fearless,
Freddie Wadling,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kurtis Blow,
Rufus Thomas,
Swell Maps,
Jimmy McGriff,
Glenn Branca,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
China Crisis,
The Misunderstood,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Womack,
Yaz,
Pet Shop Boys,
Neil Young,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.