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 India and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 clarinet 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. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Pop Group,
Peter & Gordon,
Brothers Johnson,
Joe Smooth,
Nik Kershaw,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aural Exciters,
Eddi Front,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cure,
Accadde A,
Con Funk Shun,
New Age Steppers,
Maleditus Sound,
Liliput,
Tres Demented,
Amon Düül,
Boz Scaggs,
Sarah Menescal,
Lindisfarne,
Robert Wyatt,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Techniques,
Matthew Halsall,
Godley & Creme,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Guru Guru,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Saccharine Trust,
Mars,
Quando Quango,
Schoolly D,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sun City Girls,
Joyce Sims,
ABC,
Bootsy Collins,
The Smiths,
Jeff Mills,
The Fire Engines,
Amazonics,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pussy Galore,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Patti Smith,
Supertramp,
David Axelrod,
Loose Ends,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ultra Naté,
Porter Ricks,
Brick,
Outsiders,
Funky Four + One,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blossom Toes,
Ludus,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.