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 East Timor and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Sound Behaviour,
Jimmy McGriff,
Magma,
ABC,
The Blues Magoos,
The Fuzztones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Germs,
UT,
The Associates,
The Fire Engines,
Average White Band,
Public Enemy,
a-ha,
Subhumans,
Black Pus,
Quadrant,
Sex Pistols,
MDC,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The United States of America,
Rapeman,
Todd Terry,
The American Breed,
Andrew Hill,
Carl Craig,
The Names,
Wasted Youth,
Brass Construction,
Minnie Riperton,
Kayak,
Joensuu 1685,
Derrick May,
Amazonics,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
Niagra,
Terry Callier,
Thompson Twins,
Kevin Saunderson,
Outsiders,
Hasil Adkins,
Cluster,
Bob Dylan,
Con Funk Shun,
Michelle Simonal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Cowsills,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kaleidoscope,
Skriet,
10cc,
The Buckinghams,
Organ,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Urselle,
Easy Going,
Stockholm Monsters,
The J.B.'s,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.