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 Finland and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 In Retrospect to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gang Green. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
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,
Quando Quango,
The Vogues,
DJ Style,
Ultravox,
June of 44,
John Lydon,
Danielle Patucci,
Deepchord,
Sound Behaviour,
Albert Ayler,
10cc,
Scan 7,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minor Threat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ken Boothe,
David Bowie,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Slits,
The Barracudas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dave Gahan,
Soulsonic Force,
Sex Pistols,
Little Man,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cluster,
Eurythmics,
Ultra Naté,
Letta Mbulu,
CMW,
Unrelated Segments,
Excepter,
Althea and Donna,
The Motions,
Yusef Lateef,
cv313,
The Human League,
Jeff Lynne,
The Standells,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camberwell Now,
Amon Düül,
Jesper Dahlback,
Boogie Down Productions,
Altered Images,
Zero Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Donald Byrd,
Lakeside,
a-ha,
The Zeros,
The Red Krayola,
Jerry's Kids,
Wire,
The Divine Comedy,
Khruangbin,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Leaves,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.