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 Benin and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 China Crisis to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Judy Mowatt,
The Kinks,
Fear,
Brick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Echospace,
Minnie Riperton,
Delta 5,
Peter & Gordon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nico,
Loose Ends,
Yusef Lateef,
Agitation Free,
Goldenarms,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Grass Roots,
Half Japanese,
Negative Approach,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Toasters,
The Black Dice,
Frankie Knuckles,
Y Pants,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sex Pistols,
Sun Ra,
Slick Rick,
Rapeman,
Kurtis Blow,
The Evens,
Quantec,
Altered Images,
Eli Mardock,
Arab on Radar,
Darondo,
the Association,
Robert Hood,
The Names,
the Normal,
Connie Case,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lightning Bolt,
Wings,
Roy Ayers,
Crime,
Scientists,
Bizarre Inc.,
The American Breed,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
David Bowie,
Throbbing Gristle,
John Foxx,
The Gladiators,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fad Gadget,
Alice Coltrane,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.