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 Israel and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Reagan Youth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oblivians,
Judy Mowatt,
Jeff Mills,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Niagra,
The Dirtbombs,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Normal,
Model 500,
K-Klass,
The Searchers,
The Mojo Men,
Can,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Slackers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Marc Almond,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sound Behaviour,
The Golliwogs,
Underground Resistance,
The Busters,
Connie Case,
Motorama,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fatback Band,
Magma,
Byron Stingily,
Davy DMX,
Agent Orange,
Masters at Work,
The Blues Magoos,
MC5,
David Bowie,
New York Dolls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Letta Mbulu,
Alton Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Y Pants,
Wasted Youth,
Supertramp,
The Martian,
The Mummies,
Althea and Donna,
Idris Muhammad,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Beau Brummels,
Janne Schatter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Howard Jones,
The New Christs,
Jandek,
L. Decosne,
Max Romeo,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.