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 Laos and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 D'Angelo to the jazz 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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Pantytec,
The Durutti Column,
Simply Red,
The Dirtbombs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Evens,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The United States of America,
Ituana,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Niagra,
X-102,
The Blackbyrds,
The Tremeloes,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tomorrow,
Sight & Sound,
Cymande,
June Days,
Dennis Brown,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
Reuben Wilson,
Interpol,
Yellowson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
R.M.O.,
The Birthday Party,
Fugazi,
Donald Byrd,
The Cowsills,
Rakim,
Little Man,
Delon & Dalcan,
Y Pants,
Arcadia,
Section 25,
A Certain Ratio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jacques Brel,
Alphaville,
FM Einheit,
The Gladiators,
Eric Dolphy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marvin Gaye,
Michelle Simonal,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
Bluetip,
Davy DMX,
Funkadelic,
Unwound,
Piero Umiliani,
T. Rex,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.