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 Eritrea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Swans,
Juan Atkins,
Sight & Sound,
UT,
Bootsy Collins,
Moebius,
Bush Tetras,
The Smoke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sound,
Make Up,
John Coltrane,
Bob Dylan,
ABC,
Khruangbin,
Second Layer,
Tim Buckley,
Desert Stars,
Steve Hackett,
Inner City,
Colin Newman,
Harmonia,
Moss Icon,
Hardrive,
Skarface,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Delta 5,
Johnny Clarke,
Quadrant,
Parry Music,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Busters,
Wolf Eyes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
T.S.O.L.,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nirvana,
Lalo Schifrin,
L. Decosne,
Talk Talk,
Barrington Levy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Shuggie Otis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Connie Case,
The Mojo Men,
Roger Hodgson,
Pussy Galore,
Jerry's Kids,
Scott Walker,
The Misunderstood,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter & Gordon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Teasers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.