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 Palau and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Malaria! to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Heaven 17,
EPMD,
Skarface,
Eric Dolphy,
Ponytail,
Lalo Schifrin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Fear,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bizarre Inc.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ornette Coleman,
Quando Quango,
Zapp,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Matthew Bourne,
Arcadia,
Public Image Ltd.,
Masters at Work,
Loose Ends,
Jerry Gold Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Angels of Light,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joey Negro,
Delta 5,
The Cure,
Trumans Water,
the Association,
Saccharine Trust,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party,
a-ha,
Swans,
Amazonics,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultravox,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Darondo,
Soft Cell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mission of Burma,
Lalann,
Pulsallama,
The Vogues,
Mark Hollis,
Roxy Music,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Music Machine,
John Cale,
Make Up,
This Heat,
Dual Sessions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.