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 Antigua and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hasil Adkins to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bush Tetras,
Essential Logic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ossler,
Nick Fraelich,
Niagra,
Das Ding,
Y Pants,
a-ha,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Barbara Tucker,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dave Gahan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wolf Eyes,
Kayak,
Delta 5,
the Human League,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eddi Front,
Country Teasers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moby Grape,
Suicide,
Talk Talk,
Roy Ayers,
Mo-Dettes,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stetsasonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kurtis Blow,
Max Romeo,
Nas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
John Coltrane,
Johnny Clarke,
Sun Ra,
Quadrant,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Victims,
Idris Muhammad,
Terry Callier,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
UT,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
10cc,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Invisible,
DJ Sneak,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Monks,
The Mojo Men,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cameo,
Rekid,
The Young Rascals,
The Doors,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.