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 Marshall Islands and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fela Kuti to the grime 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 Al Stewart. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Wally Richardson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Derrick Morgan,
the Slits,
Electric Prunes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Subhumans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lebanon Hanover,
Darondo,
The Motions,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Smiths,
Suburban Knight,
Little Man,
The Litter,
Joy Division,
KRS-One,
Newcleus,
Desert Stars,
a-ha,
DJ Style,
AZ,
Dennis Brown,
Erasure,
The Remains,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eddi Front,
Guru Guru,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Grass Roots,
Sound Behaviour,
Fugazi,
Barrington Levy,
Steve Hackett,
Stetsasonic,
Thee Headcoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
Althea and Donna,
David McCallum,
Livin' Joy,
Ultravox,
Index,
The Monochrome Set,
Terrestrial Tones,
LL Cool J,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Japan,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Alison Limerick,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Quadrant,
Amon Düül II,
Brothers Johnson,
The Music Machine,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.