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 Macedonia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Main Source to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Letta Mbulu,
Aaron Thompson,
Monolake,
Warren Ellis,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barry Ungar,
Brass Construction,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Goldenarms,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lightning Bolt,
Dual Sessions,
Thompson Twins,
The Black Dice,
The Barracudas,
Massinfluence,
Livin' Joy,
Sixth Finger,
Magazine,
Zapp,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Fluxion,
Blake Baxter,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gong,
The Neon Judgement,
The Invisible,
Barclay James Harvest,
Black Moon,
Mission of Burma,
Agitation Free,
Minnie Riperton,
Buzzcocks,
The Mojo Men,
kango's stein massive,
Anakelly,
Schoolly D,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Ohio Players,
Terry Callier,
The Fugs,
Alphaville,
The Dirtbombs,
Gang Green,
Kayak,
Oneida,
The Martian,
Robert Wyatt,
Main Source,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mars,
Spandau Ballet,
Joey Negro,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jacques Brel,
Pulsallama,
Con Funk Shun,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.