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 Gabon and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Martian to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camberwell Now,
Anakelly,
Magma,
Essential Logic,
Q and Not U,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Panda Bear,
Rod Modell,
Nico,
Fat Boys,
the Germs,
Deakin,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Youth Brigade,
Bad Manners,
Neil Young,
Max Romeo,
the Association,
Pet Shop Boys,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brothers Johnson,
Cymande,
Royal Trux,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
DJ Sneak,
Marc Almond,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Evens,
Thee Headcoats,
Porter Ricks,
Ituana,
The Fire Engines,
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Oblivians,
Peter and Kerry,
Intrusion,
The Standells,
The Martian,
Silicon Teens,
Mantronix,
Warsaw,
Scrapy,
Desert Stars,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hashim,
Babytalk,
Jacques Brel,
OOIOO,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Funkadelic,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Grass Roots,
Bill Wells,
The Angels of Light,
Nas,
Soulsonic Force,
Donny Hathaway,
Barrington Levy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.