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 Denmark and from Delhi.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Mad Mike 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Cecil Taylor,
Scan 7,
The Cowsills,
Bush Tetras,
Schoolly D,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hot Snakes,
Sixth Finger,
Eurythmics,
The Searchers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Todd Rundgren,
PIL,
Intrusion,
Yaz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Monks,
The Mojo Men,
The Music Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
Angry Samoans,
Basic Channel,
Sun City Girls,
The Pop Group,
Urselle,
The Golliwogs,
Aaron Thompson,
Reagan Youth,
Babytalk,
Black Pus,
Avey Tare,
Bronski Beat,
Eric Copeland,
the Germs,
Grauzone,
Kayak,
Flash Fearless,
Rufus Thomas,
Roger Hodgson,
The Trojans,
Faust,
Al Stewart,
Animal Collective,
Lou Christie,
Fad Gadget,
Sound Behaviour,
MDC,
Adolescents,
T. Rex,
Skriet,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lyres,
Easy Going,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.