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 Angola and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar 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 Jimmy McGriff to the electroclash 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Normal,
Icehouse,
KRS-One,
D'Angelo,
The Smoke,
Vainqueur,
Warsaw,
The Kinks,
The Blues Magoos,
Ponytail,
Chris Corsano,
Pagans,
Jandek,
kango's stein massive,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Happenings,
Guru Guru,
Kerri Chandler,
Ken Boothe,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Main Source,
Cal Tjader,
Zero Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Johnny Clarke,
The Cramps,
Cameo,
Amon Düül,
Eddi Front,
The Associates,
Terry Callier,
Talk Talk,
Soul II Soul,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ten City,
Organ,
The Gap Band,
Scion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Masters at Work,
Unwound,
The Raincoats,
Barclay James Harvest,
DJ Style,
Flipper,
Dennis Brown,
Deakin,
One Last Wish,
The Sound,
Dual Sessions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Faraquet,
Piero Umiliani,
Rapeman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Cale,
Tomorrow,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.