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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the grunge 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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool Moe Dee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Silicon Teens,
Matthew Halsall,
Crime,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
E-Dancer,
Lou Christie,
Arthur Verocai,
Yazoo,
Alphaville,
Black Bananas,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rosa Yemen,
Au Pairs,
Rotary Connection,
Technova,
Dark Day,
Eli Mardock,
New York Dolls,
Robert Wyatt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Aural Exciters,
Howard Jones,
Marvin Gaye,
Al Stewart,
The Electric Prunes,
Deadbeat,
Eurythmics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Anakelly,
Organ,
Heaven 17,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gabor Szabo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soft Machine,
Aswad,
Procol Harum,
Audionom,
Juan Atkins,
The Young Rascals,
The Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Trojans,
The Cowsills,
DNA,
Q and Not U,
Colin Newman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bill Near,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Graham Central Station,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.