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 Congo and from Lyon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 rhodes 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 Laurel Aitken to the crunk 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Pole,
Country Teasers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Dark Day,
Crime,
Josef K,
Erykah Badu,
Matthew Halsall,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Wake,
Amon Düül II,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Count Five,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Panda Bear,
Thee Headcoats,
Joey Negro,
Stereo Dub,
Mr. Review,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Leonard Cohen,
The Offenders,
Loose Ends,
The Velvet Underground,
Barry Ungar,
Deadbeat,
China Crisis,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pop Group,
The Leaves,
Parry Music,
Ice-T,
The Toasters,
Pagans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Tubeway Army,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pantaleimon,
Wings,
Gerry Rafferty,
Simply Red,
Alison Limerick,
Kerrie Biddell,
cv313,
Mandrill,
June Days,
The Motions,
Nils Olav,
Erasure,
Whodini,
Kenny Larkin,
Andrew Hill,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gories,
Jandek,
Godley & Creme,
Beasts of Bourbon,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.