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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 the Normal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Sight & Sound,
Ronan,
Minor Threat,
Flipper,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Morten Harket,
Trumans Water,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Darondo,
Rakim,
Tears for Fears,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Names,
Reagan Youth,
Radiohead,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Con Funk Shun,
Eden Ahbez,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Raincoats,
Yazoo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Womack,
World's Most,
Lindisfarne,
Skriet,
Sun Ra,
Tres Demented,
Soul II Soul,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Nico,
Slave,
Moss Icon,
Niagra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unwound,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eddi Front,
Chris & Cosey,
Blancmange,
Au Pairs,
Agitation Free,
June of 44,
Mars,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sonic Youth,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Main Source,
Inner City,
Marmalade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Make Up,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.