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 Niger and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Eric Dolphy 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
The Human League,
Con Funk Shun,
Nirvana,
Mad Mike,
The Last Poets,
Visage,
Isaac Hayes,
Wolf Eyes,
X-Ray Spex,
Archie Shepp,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crash Course in Science,
Sound Behaviour,
Althea and Donna,
Ken Boothe,
Maleditus Sound,
Camouflage,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
One Last Wish,
Interpol,
Joey Negro,
Q65,
Outsiders,
X-101,
Ornette Coleman,
Chris & Cosey,
Alison Limerick,
The Moody Blues,
Hoover,
Cameo,
Bill Wells,
Erasure,
Sällskapet,
The Angels of Light,
Metal Thangz,
The Standells,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aloha Tigers,
Roger Hodgson,
DJ Style,
The Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tres Demented,
The Martian,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camberwell Now,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soul II Soul,
Gong,
Scan 7,
Can,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Durutti Column,
The Vogues,
Black Moon,
PIL,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nico,
Rakim,
Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras, Bush Tetras.
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.