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 South Sudan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the dance 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
The Mummies,
New Order,
David McCallum,
Black Flag,
Altered Images,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Carl Craig,
Junior Murvin,
Half Japanese,
The Litter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dennis Brown,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Misunderstood,
Tommy Roe,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cheater Slicks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pierre Henry,
Charles Mingus,
Kurtis Blow,
Maurizio,
Peter & Gordon,
Pole,
Ossler,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hashim,
Tears for Fears,
Little Man,
Cameo,
Minutemen,
Al Stewart,
Anthony Braxton,
The Blackbyrds,
Electric Prunes,
cv313,
a-ha,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Music Machine,
Moby Grape,
Gabor Szabo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grey Daturas,
This Heat,
The Zeros,
the Germs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marvin Gaye,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
ABBA,
10cc,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Rod Modell,
Yusef Lateef,
The Knickerbockers,
Yazoo,
The Moleskins,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.