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 Croatia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Magma to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Barrington Levy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Aswad,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nils Olav,
Country Joe & The Fish,
AZ,
The Searchers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gichy Dan,
The Invisible,
Dead Boys,
Flash Fearless,
One Last Wish,
Davy DMX,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sexual Harrassment,
Absolute Body Control,
Schoolly D,
Little Man,
The Victims,
Quadrant,
Sex Pistols,
E-Dancer,
Derrick Morgan,
Malaria!,
Reuben Wilson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dark Day,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Groovy Waters,
Yaz,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Association,
Outsiders,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
B.T. Express,
New Order,
Amazonics,
Soulsonic Force,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nik Kershaw,
Alison Limerick,
Chris Corsano,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blake Baxter,
Black Moon,
David Bowie,
Inner City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Germs,
Arcadia,
Sonic Youth,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Neon Judgement,
New York Dolls,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Alphaville,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Echospace,
Eric Copeland,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.