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 Canada and from New York.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 Ultra Naté to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The American Breed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Gastr Del Sol,
Saccharine Trust,
The Index,
Glenn Branca,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bauhaus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dennis Brown,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Pop Group,
Alton Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
Sparks,
The Remains,
These Immortal Souls,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sexual Harrassment,
Robert Görl,
Ten City,
Rotary Connection,
Skriet,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Axelrod,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Yusef Lateef,
Pole,
Black Bananas,
Ituana,
Zapp,
Morten Harket,
The Tremeloes,
Ronan,
Fluxion,
Todd Terry,
Liliput,
L. Decosne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Bar-Kays,
Sarah Menescal,
Au Pairs,
Mantronix,
Banda Bassotti,
Amon Düül,
the Fania All-Stars,
Second Layer,
Kerrie Biddell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalann,
Wolf Eyes,
Funky Four + One,
Bang On A Can,
Agent Orange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash,
John Holt,
Mandrill,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.