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 United Kingdom and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skriet to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gories record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Marine Girls,
The Busters,
The Offenders,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dual Sessions,
Accadde A,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Underground Resistance,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sixth Finger,
Visage,
Al Stewart,
Pet Shop Boys,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moebius,
The Kinks,
Q and Not U,
Barrington Levy,
Junior Murvin,
Fela Kuti,
Scott Walker,
Clear Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
Blancmange,
Slave,
Little Man,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
T. Rex,
Magma,
The Raincoats,
10cc,
Supertramp,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Nico,
Basic Channel,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Durutti Column,
Roxy Music,
Joy Division,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Y Pants,
Crispian St. Peters,
Niagra,
Banda Bassotti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeru the Damaja,
Andrew Hill,
John Coltrane,
Sight & Sound,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nils Olav,
Ituana,
Funkadelic,
Sound Behaviour,
Morten Harket,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mary Jane Girls,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.