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 Tuvalu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe 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 Lou Reed to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funkadelic 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?
Erykah Badu,
Can,
Leonard Cohen,
Bill Wells,
Agitation Free,
Technova,
Fela Kuti,
CMW,
Pulsallama,
LL Cool J,
Camouflage,
Von Mondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Flag,
Urselle,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Quantec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Neon Judgement,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Pop Group,
The United States of America,
New Age Steppers,
Adolescents,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fad Gadget,
U.S. Maple,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
PIL,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Kerri Chandler,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bill Near,
F. McDonald,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Babytalk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Offenders,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Maurizio,
Eden Ahbez,
Aloha Tigers,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
The Victims,
Pantytec,
Cal Tjader,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.