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 Bolivia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Move to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Fania All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Public Enemy,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Oblivians,
Adolescents,
Ludus,
Donald Byrd,
The Modern Lovers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ten City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Model 500,
Sällskapet,
Stereo Dub,
Peter and Kerry,
D'Angelo,
Albert Ayler,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slave,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eurythmics,
World's Most,
a-ha,
The Sound,
Lyres,
Yellowson,
Massinfluence,
The New Christs,
Brothers Johnson,
Motorama,
The Smoke,
Wally Richardson,
The Durutti Column,
kango's stein massive,
The Trojans,
Oneida,
Bluetip,
Darondo,
Q and Not U,
Sun City Girls,
Sight & Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
The Five Americans,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris Corsano,
Visage,
Metal Thangz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Swans,
Suicide,
Dead Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Shoche,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.