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 Kosovo and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the grime 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Crispy Ambulance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Q and Not U,
Tres Demented,
Harry Pussy,
Trumans Water,
Morten Harket,
Lebanon Hanover,
A Certain Ratio,
Nik Kershaw,
Saccharine Trust,
Absolute Body Control,
Judy Mowatt,
The Offenders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ultravox,
Slave,
Radiohead,
Pharoah Sanders,
Stereo Dub,
Albert Ayler,
Bad Manners,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
Pere Ubu,
Joensuu 1685,
In Retrospect,
The Golliwogs,
Gong,
These Immortal Souls,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Clarke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cecil Taylor,
Con Funk Shun,
Negative Approach,
Tom Boy,
The Velvet Underground,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Holt,
The Smoke,
The Searchers,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Oneida,
Juan Atkins,
Circle Jerks,
Metal Thangz,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eurythmics,
Mark Hollis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Junior Murvin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.