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 Sierra Leone and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the grime 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Pop Group,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
The Slits,
The Real Kids,
Minor Threat,
Darondo,
the Germs,
Make Up,
John Cale,
Robert Wyatt,
Clear Light,
Visage,
Vladislav Delay,
The Offenders,
Lyres,
Robert Görl,
PIL,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
E-Dancer,
Procol Harum,
Deepchord,
D'Angelo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fuzztones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Swell Maps,
The Durutti Column,
Bizarre Inc.,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marine Girls,
Massinfluence,
The Raincoats,
A Certain Ratio,
Arab on Radar,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Absolute Body Control,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Barracudas,
Franke,
Scratch Acid,
Pagans,
H. Thieme,
Zapp,
Pantytec,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
Hot Snakes,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Prince Buster,
JFA,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bad Manners,
Camberwell Now,
Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Hazlewood.
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.