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 Angola and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Slick Rick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance 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?
Bill Near,
Bill Wells,
Chris Corsano,
Blake Baxter,
Eric Copeland,
The Five Americans,
Chrome,
Clear Light,
Soulsonic Force,
Yazoo,
David Axelrod,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Hill,
Funky Four + One,
Marvin Gaye,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Make Up,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Supertramp,
Blancmange,
Kenny Larkin,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Blackbyrds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Urselle,
Desert Stars,
Pharoah Sanders,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Das Ding,
The Monks,
Zapp,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cowsills,
Theoretical Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Stooges,
Gang of Four,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Rakim,
Surgeon,
Black Flag,
Aural Exciters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eurythmics,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Halsall,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Alarm Clocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.