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 Ireland and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 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 Popol Vuh to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quantec,
New Age Steppers,
Icehouse,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soft Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Au Pairs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Durutti Column,
Donny Hathaway,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy Collins,
Sister Nancy,
Von Mondo,
T.S.O.L.,
Sight & Sound,
Davy DMX,
Radiohead,
Robert Wyatt,
Sugar Minott,
Index,
Lower 48,
Archie Shepp,
Warsaw,
Minor Threat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Youth Brigade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Alphaville,
Average White Band,
ABC,
Patti Smith,
Television Personalities,
KRS-One,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fire Engines,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Charles Mingus,
Con Funk Shun,
Andrew Hill,
Ralphi Rosario,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ituana,
John Lydon,
E-Dancer,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Motions,
Kool Moe Dee,
Stetsasonic,
The Buckinghams,
Harry Pussy,
Michelle Simonal,
The Remains,
Blancmange,
Rotary Connection,
Bang On A Can,
Rod Modell,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.