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 Guinea-Bissau and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Quadrant to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
CMW,
Brick,
The Five Americans,
The Dead C,
Mr. Review,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mantronix,
Tubeway Army,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gregory Isaacs,
Donald Byrd,
Unwound,
Metal Thangz,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marmalade,
Neu!,
Lakeside,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Connie Case,
Max Romeo,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smoke,
Jeff Lynne,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Man Parrish,
Bootsy Collins,
Nils Olav,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fortunes,
Bobby Byrd,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ken Boothe,
E-Dancer,
Second Layer,
Suburban Knight,
Lower 48,
Ultravox,
The Index,
T. Rex,
DJ Style,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Searchers,
Colin Newman,
One Last Wish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Toni Rubio,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Liliput,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
ABBA,
Con Funk Shun,
Warsaw,
Faraquet,
the Fania All-Stars,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.