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 San Marino and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Joe Smooth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Amon Düül II,
Zapp,
Althea and Donna,
Joyce Sims,
Robert Wyatt,
The Zeros,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crooked Eye,
Darondo,
Guru Guru,
Yazoo,
Sam Rivers,
Kenny Larkin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
F. McDonald,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Erykah Badu,
Skaos,
Jacques Brel,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Charles Mingus,
Shoche,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bootsy Collins,
John Holt,
DJ Style,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sandy B,
Eve St. Jones,
Chris Corsano,
Buzzcocks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Heaven 17,
New Age Steppers,
The Toasters,
Qualms,
Deepchord,
Youth Brigade,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Fire Engines,
Derrick May,
Niagra,
AZ,
The Count Five,
ABBA,
Public Enemy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Matthew Bourne,
Deadbeat,
The Red Krayola,
The Skatalites,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vainqueur,
Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys, Fat Boys.
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.