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 Tunisia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 China Crisis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Drexciya,
Sandy B,
Avey Tare,
Boredoms,
Toni Rubio,
The Wake,
Kurtis Blow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Erykah Badu,
Bad Manners,
Oneida,
Dorothy Ashby,
Glenn Branca,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Fania All-Stars,
Prince Buster,
Laurel Aitken,
Ponytail,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Desert Stars,
Youth Brigade,
Pantaleimon,
The United States of America,
The Walker Brothers,
Loose Ends,
Sound Behaviour,
The Gap Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pylon,
K-Klass,
Todd Terry,
The Five Americans,
Panda Bear,
Rod Modell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Icehouse,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Alphaville,
Aloha Tigers,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bootsy Collins,
Swans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Das Ding,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Sheep,
Soft Cell,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eurythmics,
The Doobie Brothers,
Judy Mowatt,
Piero Umiliani,
Japan,
Eric Copeland,
Joyce Sims,
Fat Boys,
Schoolly D,
Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin, Khruangbin.
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.