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 Panama and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lower 48 to the techno 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 Rekid. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Freddie Wadling,
The New Christs,
Talk Talk,
The Blues Magoos,
Barclay James Harvest,
Monks,
Spandau Ballet,
Excepter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flipper,
Harmonia,
The Slackers,
Icehouse,
Colin Newman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Half Japanese,
U.S. Maple,
Gang Green,
Idris Muhammad,
Monolake,
Robert Görl,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Techniques,
Gregory Isaacs,
Zapp,
The Blackbyrds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soft Machine,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Roger Hodgson,
Avey Tare,
Nation of Ulysses,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Neon Judgement,
The Five Americans,
Reuben Wilson,
Dave Gahan,
Absolute Body Control,
Bush Tetras,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cowsills,
Sight & Sound,
Easy Going,
The Names,
Section 25,
The Monks,
Matthew Bourne,
Scratch Acid,
Joe Finger,
Grandmaster Flash,
Banda Bassotti,
Tropical Tobacco,
Blake Baxter,
Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish, Lungfish.
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.