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 Cape Verde and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Procol Harum to the electroclash 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Hill,
Michelle Simonal,
Angry Samoans,
Gerry Rafferty,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Organ,
Shuggie Otis,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Magma,
Whodini,
DJ Style,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cramps,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
D'Angelo,
The Moody Blues,
The Moleskins,
Half Japanese,
JFA,
Lakeside,
Joey Negro,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Byrd,
Mary Jane Girls,
Silicon Teens,
Crispian St. Peters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Flag,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sällskapet,
The Durutti Column,
R.M.O.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Robert Wyatt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eric Copeland,
Flipper,
Lyres,
Reagan Youth,
Erykah Badu,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mandrill,
John Foxx,
The Birthday Party,
Ossler,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scott Walker,
Lalann,
Lindisfarne,
Bad Manners,
Marmalade,
Prince Buster,
Grey Daturas,
The Remains,
Ornette Coleman,
The Wake,
Cheater Slicks,
KRS-One,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.