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 Rwanda and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 harpsichord 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew to the funk 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Warren Ellis,
Jeff Lynne,
Pere Ubu,
Unrelated Segments,
Reagan Youth,
Drexciya,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
Sister Nancy,
The Wake,
Section 25,
Michelle Simonal,
Scrapy,
Sällskapet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nas,
the Sonics,
The Vogues,
the Association,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wire,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ralphi Rosario,
Newcleus,
Duran Duran,
L. Decosne,
Accadde A,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Minny Pops,
Henry Cow,
Delta 5,
Black Bananas,
Gichy Dan,
K-Klass,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Youth Brigade,
Skriet,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Remains,
Lyres,
The Blackbyrds,
Excepter,
Steve Hackett,
Panda Bear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Joe Finger,
Cheater Slicks,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Alton Ellis,
Piero Umiliani,
AZ,
Sarah Menescal,
Tears for Fears,
John Foxx,
James White and The Blacks,
the Human League,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.