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 Ecuador and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Delhi.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Soulsonic Force to the jazz 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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Patti Smith,
Andrew Hill,
Pantytec,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Stetsasonic,
Jacob Miller,
Franke,
DJ Style,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Motions,
Idris Muhammad,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Angels of Light,
The Smiths,
X-101,
Man Eating Sloth,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Schoolly D,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neu!,
The Slits,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Archie Shepp,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Oneida,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erasure,
Au Pairs,
Funkadelic,
Spoonie Gee,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cecil Taylor,
Half Japanese,
Talk Talk,
Jawbox,
Accadde A,
Black Bananas,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Stooges,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Girls At Our Best!,
World's Most,
Tears for Fears,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
AZ,
Alison Limerick,
Bobby Womack,
Junior Murvin,
The United States of America,
The Index,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.