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 Austria and from Calgary.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Junior Murvin to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Porter Ricks,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Archie Shepp,
Depeche Mode,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mars,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Seeds,
Talk Talk,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sonics,
The Knickerbockers,
Animal Collective,
Rod Modell,
Brass Construction,
One Last Wish,
Joe Smooth,
Joey Negro,
T.S.O.L.,
Fear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Sonics,
Silicon Teens,
Funky Four + One,
Davy DMX,
The Gories,
Quadrant,
Eddi Front,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Music Machine,
Alison Limerick,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agent Orange,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Walker Brothers,
Harmonia,
Max Romeo,
Sex Pistols,
the Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
Skarface,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pierre Henry,
Deepchord,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jeru the Damaja,
Alice Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Angry Samoans,
Agitation Free,
Television,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.