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 Monaco and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Smiths to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 June of 44. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Music Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Godley & Creme,
Fluxion,
The Saints,
Johnny Osbourne,
Glambeats Corp.,
Guru Guru,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Germs,
Iggy Pop,
Ohio Players,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mars,
Hoover,
Rosa Yemen,
Eden Ahbez,
A Certain Ratio,
The Pretty Things,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pulsallama,
Absolute Body Control,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kas Product,
EPMD,
The Count Five,
H. Thieme,
Jacob Miller,
Amon Düül II,
The Star Department,
Cheater Slicks,
Donald Byrd,
The Vogues,
Amazonics,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Grass Roots,
Danielle Patucci,
Ultravox,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joey Negro,
Wasted Youth,
Marmalade,
Joe Finger,
Althea and Donna,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Chris Corsano,
The Fortunes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Q and Not U,
The American Breed,
48th St. Collective,
Soul II Soul,
Graham Central Station,
The Moody Blues,
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
The Smiths,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Porter Ricks,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.