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 Cuba and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron 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 Flesh Eaters to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Jeff Mills,
Susan Cadogan,
Man Parrish,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Selecter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Talk Talk,
Peter & Gordon,
Funkadelic,
Niagra,
Television,
Yellowson,
Nirvana,
Swell Maps,
Monolake,
Byron Stingily,
OOIOO,
Accadde A,
Soul Sonic Force,
the Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Q and Not U,
The Happenings,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Leaves,
Scientists,
The Detroit Cobras,
In Retrospect,
Blake Baxter,
Japan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Negative Approach,
The Stooges,
Maleditus Sound,
Panda Bear,
Goldenarms,
Siglo XX,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Charles Mingus,
Barry Ungar,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Smoke,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gang of Four,
John Holt,
Section 25,
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Piero Umiliani,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Shuggie Otis,
New Age Steppers,
Flash Fearless,
The Beau Brummels,
Bill Wells,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.