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 Cameroon and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 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 Al Stewart to the techno 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rapeman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
Spandau Ballet,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cheater Slicks,
Ossler,
Fela Kuti,
Tommy Roe,
ABBA,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Siglo XX,
Freddie Wadling,
Second Layer,
The Index,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nick Fraelich,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Remains,
Chrome,
Anthony Braxton,
Quando Quango,
Make Up,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deakin,
Althea and Donna,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bill Wells,
Gerry Rafferty,
Donald Byrd,
La Düsseldorf,
Fugazi,
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul II Soul,
Albert Ayler,
Nation of Ulysses,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jeff Lynne,
Roy Ayers,
Skaos,
Deadbeat,
Funkadelic,
Blake Baxter,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The United States of America,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Harry Pussy,
Depeche Mode,
The Raincoats,
Quantec,
The Fortunes,
Connie Case,
Popol Vuh,
Suburban Knight,
Drexciya,
Slave,
Ken Boothe,
The Durutti Column,
Cal Tjader,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.