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 Bahamas and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Nils Olav to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Neil Young,
This Heat,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Patti Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Mission of Burma,
Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
One Last Wish,
Alice Coltrane,
Quantec,
Simply Red,
Hashim,
Shoche,
Dorothy Ashby,
Japan,
Jacob Miller,
FM Einheit,
Roy Ayers,
Newcleus,
The Martian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
June Days,
The Angels of Light,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Hasil Adkins,
Swans,
Boogie Down Productions,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fat Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fugazi,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Scott Walker,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Fortunes,
Jeff Lynne,
Unrelated Segments,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
K-Klass,
Warren Ellis,
Liliput,
UT,
Bill Wells,
The Misunderstood,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grey Daturas,
Arthur Verocai,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gregory Isaacs,
Procol Harum,
Lower 48,
Fear,
The Blues Magoos,
10cc,
Black Bananas,
Malaria!,
Little Man,
Amon Düül,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.