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 United Kingdom and from Paris.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Groovy Waters to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
These Immortal Souls,
Zero Boys,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sun Ra,
The Fuzztones,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Move,
Kenny Larkin,
KRS-One,
Maleditus Sound,
Supertramp,
Altered Images,
Max Romeo,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shuggie Otis,
Jeff Lynne,
The Standells,
Quando Quango,
Sugar Minott,
Bob Dylan,
Althea and Donna,
Amon Düül,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arab on Radar,
Minnie Riperton,
Alphaville,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unwound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Funky Four + One,
Arcadia,
Black Moon,
Cameo,
Ultravox,
Kerri Chandler,
Deakin,
John Holt,
Traffic Nightmare,
8 Eyed Spy,
Drexciya,
Carl Craig,
Soft Cell,
Niagra,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
La Düsseldorf,
The Zeros,
Mandrill,
Public Image Ltd.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eddi Front,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nils Olav,
The Knickerbockers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.