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 Turkey and from Woodstock.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Johannesburg.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
Robert Görl,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Shadows of Knight,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Black Bananas,
Cecil Taylor,
Erykah Badu,
Interpol,
Supertramp,
MDC,
Rotary Connection,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Essential Logic,
Siglo XX,
Hardrive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gap Band,
The Leaves,
ABBA,
John Lydon,
Spandau Ballet,
Neu!,
Donny Hathaway,
Lungfish,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mission of Burma,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scrapy,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Radiohead,
Graham Central Station,
Rites of Spring,
The Kinks,
Icehouse,
Robert Hood,
Lou Reed,
Alison Limerick,
Ituana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marc Almond,
Bobby Womack,
Deadbeat,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fela Kuti,
Ultimate Spinach,
a-ha,
Outsiders,
Talk Talk,
ABC,
The Offenders,
Bizarre Inc.,
Metal Thangz,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.