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 Equatorial Guinea and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ 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 Minny Pops to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Quando Quango,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Nico,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jimmy McGriff,
Charles Mingus,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Pus,
Blancmange,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bobby Womack,
Silicon Teens,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Johnny Clarke,
Blake Baxter,
The Searchers,
Arab on Radar,
The Grass Roots,
Todd Terry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Busters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lungfish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Simply Red,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Excepter,
Wire,
Kerri Chandler,
Schoolly D,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Black Dice,
The Techniques,
The Gun Club,
Eric Copeland,
Lou Reed,
Erykah Badu,
Nik Kershaw,
Supertramp,
Bill Near,
Little Man,
Nas,
Metal Thangz,
Danielle Patucci,
Vladislav Delay,
The United States of America,
Shuggie Otis,
Essential Logic,
Black Flag,
World's Most,
The Barracudas,
Banda Bassotti,
The Dead C,
Spoonie Gee,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.