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 Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar 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 Bar-Kays to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
EPMD,
Pantaleimon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Susan Cadogan,
Lalo Schifrin,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Blake Baxter,
Supertramp,
KRS-One,
Brass Construction,
Mandrill,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
UT,
Tom Boy,
The Skatalites,
Janne Schatter,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cowsills,
Boz Scaggs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Star Department,
Andrew Hill,
Second Layer,
Schoolly D,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ronan,
The Motions,
Bauhaus,
Erykah Badu,
Hashim,
Yaz,
Sugar Minott,
Model 500,
E-Dancer,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lee Hazlewood,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jeff Mills,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ponytail,
Joey Negro,
Black Sheep,
The Fortunes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Mary Jane Girls,
Zapp,
The Music Machine,
Motorama,
Agitation Free,
Ken Boothe,
Stetsasonic,
Fluxion,
Aloha Tigers,
Khruangbin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Aural Exciters,
Lakeside,
Piero Umiliani,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.