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 Fiji and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 The Grass Roots to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Grass Roots. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Grass Roots,
Derrick May,
The Fire Engines,
Accadde A,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Donny Hathaway,
X-Ray Spex,
Archie Shepp,
Gang Green,
Peter and Kerry,
Pere Ubu,
Lungfish,
The Move,
Sexual Harrassment,
Matthew Bourne,
the Sonics,
The Angels of Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Silicon Teens,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Adolescents,
Crispian St. Peters,
Morten Harket,
Black Pus,
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Machine,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
H. Thieme,
Cymande,
Mission of Burma,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Sherman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
This Heat,
Brothers Johnson,
Jacob Miller,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Easy Going,
Chris Corsano,
Johnny Clarke,
Mark Hollis,
Supertramp,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Walker Brothers,
Chrome,
Skriet,
Clear Light,
Scion,
The Last Poets,
Minnie Riperton,
Rosa Yemen,
Magazine,
Lower 48,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.