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 Laos and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron 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 8 Eyed Spy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Anakelly,
Johnny Osbourne,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Searchers,
Newcleus,
China Crisis,
Stockholm Monsters,
James White and The Blacks,
Ultra Naté,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
U.S. Maple,
Faraquet,
Brothers Johnson,
Flamin' Groovies,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scion,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Darondo,
Joyce Sims,
Kurtis Blow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Offenders,
The Grass Roots,
Tom Boy,
Jawbox,
Tomorrow,
Scott Walker,
Vladislav Delay,
Delta 5,
The Fortunes,
Todd Terry,
Sugar Minott,
Al Stewart,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Agitation Free,
Swans,
The Buckinghams,
Nas,
The Smiths,
Peter & Gordon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Evens,
E-Dancer,
Minnie Riperton,
Y Pants,
Kas Product,
David Bowie,
The Blackbyrds,
New York Dolls,
Main Source,
Ultimate Spinach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Archie Shepp,
Hot Snakes,
Camouflage,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fluxion,
Oblivians,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.