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 Kosovo and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Radiohead to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Bobby Byrd,
Dual Sessions,
The Divine Comedy,
Fela Kuti,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
JFA,
Bootsy Collins,
The Slits,
Gang Green,
Little Man,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sällskapet,
Jerry's Kids,
Hardrive,
The Evens,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Man Eating Sloth,
Mandrill,
Cymande,
Charles Mingus,
Isaac Hayes,
The Black Dice,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ponytail,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pierre Henry,
Shuggie Otis,
The Young Rascals,
H. Thieme,
Freddie Wadling,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ronan,
Lindisfarne,
Marvin Gaye,
Darondo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
MC5,
Bush Tetras,
David Axelrod,
Hot Snakes,
Flash Fearless,
The Litter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Althea and Donna,
The Golliwogs,
Jeff Lynne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kayak,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crime,
Johnny Osbourne,
Public Image Ltd.,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neu!,
Harry Pussy,
Mo-Dettes,
Loose Ends,
Marmalade,
Adolescents,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.