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 Gambia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Easy Going to the rap 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Vainqueur,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Judy Mowatt,
Amon Düül,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Zeros,
Soft Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Funkadelic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric Copeland,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Guru Guru,
Jesper Dahlback,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bob Dylan,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultravox,
MDC,
Blossom Toes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lakeside,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sparks,
Boz Scaggs,
Desert Stars,
Oneida,
Outsiders,
The Cramps,
Ossler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Music Machine,
Excepter,
Cecil Taylor,
The Buckinghams,
The Leaves,
Darondo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Techniques,
Eurythmics,
Rod Modell,
Todd Rundgren,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mantronix,
Mad Mike,
The Blues Magoos,
Jeff Lynne,
Loose Ends,
The Selecter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marc Almond,
The Sound,
World's Most,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
X-Ray Spex,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.