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 Switzerland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Dorothy Ashby to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New York Dolls,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Techniques,
Monolake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television Personalities,
Dual Sessions,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Clear Light,
Ornette Coleman,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Associates,
The Motions,
Groovy Waters,
Banda Bassotti,
Eric Dolphy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Yaz,
Desert Stars,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fad Gadget,
Ronnie Foster,
Zapp,
The Smoke,
Ultravox,
Crash Course in Science,
The Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
The Tremeloes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Al Stewart,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Adolescents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
June of 44,
kango's stein massive,
Johnny Osbourne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
B.T. Express,
Flamin' Groovies,
Peter & Gordon,
This Heat,
It's A Beautiful Day,
L. Decosne,
DJ Sneak,
David Bowie,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kurtis Blow,
Dave Gahan,
Nas,
Barrington Levy,
Ice-T,
The Red Krayola,
Terrestrial Tones,
Shuggie Otis,
Funkadelic,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mr. Review,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.