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 San Marino and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Grey Daturas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pussy Galore,
Matthew Bourne,
Lungfish,
Simply Red,
The Happenings,
The Modern Lovers,
Black Pus,
Juan Atkins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Goldenarms,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Moon,
Camouflage,
John Coltrane,
Funky Four + One,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tubeway Army,
Hashim,
Bauhaus,
Average White Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
The Searchers,
The Gladiators,
The Evens,
Yaz,
Eddi Front,
Nico,
Donald Byrd,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Slave,
Derrick Morgan,
Theoretical Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sugar Minott,
Robert Wyatt,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mo-Dettes,
Fela Kuti,
Ronnie Foster,
Mad Mike,
The Residents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalo Schifrin,
Crash Course in Science,
Alton Ellis,
Camberwell Now,
Clear Light,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Agent Orange,
Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
Surgeon,
A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio, A Certain Ratio.
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.