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 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Althea and Donna,
Q65,
Stockholm Monsters,
Accadde A,
Pylon,
Hasil Adkins,
The Fugs,
Wire,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Bourne,
Marine Girls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronnie Foster,
Susan Cadogan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marvin Gaye,
Brand Nubian,
Todd Terry,
Boz Scaggs,
Janne Schatter,
Prince Buster,
Hashim,
Crooked Eye,
The Five Americans,
Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
Vladislav Delay,
Ohio Players,
Laurel Aitken,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gabor Szabo,
Porter Ricks,
The Gladiators,
The Tremeloes,
The Moleskins,
Q and Not U,
Lindisfarne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Grey Daturas,
LL Cool J,
Organ,
Isaac Hayes,
Quando Quango,
Procol Harum,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Ituana,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Morten Harket,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kayak,
The Busters,
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.