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 Liechtenstein and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Crime 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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every China Crisis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Minor Threat,
Pylon,
The Five Americans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ralphi Rosario,
Television Personalities,
Joy Division,
Basic Channel,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mars,
Cymande,
The Gun Club,
Erykah Badu,
Eric Dolphy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shoche,
Donny Hathaway,
The Doors,
Jacob Miller,
Swans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lightning Bolt,
Drexciya,
Funky Four + One,
La Düsseldorf,
L. Decosne,
Gil Scott Heron,
Liliput,
Andrew Hill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mojo Men,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Modern Lovers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rites of Spring,
The Moody Blues,
The Zeros,
Stiv Bators,
Tom Boy,
Ludus,
The Velvet Underground,
Audionom,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
James White and The Blacks,
Public Enemy,
Little Man,
Harry Pussy,
Dennis Brown,
Deakin,
Scratch Acid,
Quantec,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yazoo,
Wolf Eyes,
Zero Boys,
Soft Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Q and Not U,
Avey Tare,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.