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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 güiro 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
Drexciya,
Qualms,
Young Marble Giants,
The Beau Brummels,
Livin' Joy,
The J.B.'s,
Rekid,
John Foxx,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ralphi Rosario,
D'Angelo,
Massinfluence,
Lindisfarne,
Liliput,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Max Romeo,
Black Pus,
The Pop Group,
Quadrant,
Thompson Twins,
Kenny Larkin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Yazoo,
Severed Heads,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Technova,
the Slits,
Interpol,
Echospace,
E-Dancer,
Gong,
Kerri Chandler,
The Red Krayola,
The Mojo Men,
10cc,
Albert Ayler,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Oneida,
Steve Hackett,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Neon Judgement,
The Techniques,
Suburban Knight,
Joey Negro,
Sister Nancy,
Index,
Dawn Penn,
Reuben Wilson,
Erasure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Anakelly,
The Knickerbockers,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Görl,
Quando Quango,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.