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 Panama and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Organ to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Beasts of Bourbon 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Hot Snakes,
Scientists,
Todd Rundgren,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Dawn Penn,
Marc Almond,
Spoonie Gee,
Carl Craig,
Nico,
Derrick May,
Dorothy Ashby,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Sarah Menescal,
Eric B and Rakim,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Alton Ellis,
The Angels of Light,
Banda Bassotti,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Circle Jerks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eric Copeland,
Swell Maps,
Bobby Byrd,
Wasted Youth,
David McCallum,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The J.B.'s,
Outsiders,
Warsaw,
The Buckinghams,
New York Dolls,
Easy Going,
Oneida,
Grey Daturas,
Pole,
the Human League,
Siglo XX,
Wire,
Guru Guru,
Fela Kuti,
Minnie Riperton,
Joe Smooth,
Basic Channel,
Smog,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Yazoo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
David Axelrod,
Average White Band,
Suicide,
Ituana,
Don Cherry,
Maurizio,
Sister Nancy,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.