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 Samoa and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Seoul.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gregory Isaacs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sam Rivers,
Isaac Hayes,
Byron Stingily,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sandy B,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Agent Orange,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Offenders,
Mantronix,
Oblivians,
Con Funk Shun,
PIL,
Unrelated Segments,
Clear Light,
New Age Steppers,
Black Sheep,
Rekid,
Buzzcocks,
John Lydon,
Terry Callier,
The Gories,
Althea and Donna,
Stereo Dub,
Sight & Sound,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Index,
Sound Behaviour,
Kayak,
Radiohead,
Yaz,
Model 500,
Zero Boys,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Goldenarms,
10cc,
The Sonics,
June Days,
Rod Modell,
Warsaw,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
Nick Fraelich,
Sparks,
Lightning Bolt,
Lower 48,
Eric Dolphy,
James White and The Blacks,
Flipper,
Harry Pussy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lalo Schifrin,
Niagra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slits,
Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd., Public Image Ltd..
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.