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 Peru and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ 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 Jacques Brel to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Ken Boothe,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
Kenny Larkin,
Mars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Porter Ricks,
New Order,
Warren Ellis,
Loose Ends,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fela Kuti,
Scion,
Kurtis Blow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Inner City,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Moody Blues,
Big Daddy Kane,
Deadbeat,
Fad Gadget,
Rekid,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cowsills,
Amon Düül II,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ultra Naté,
Ultravox,
E-Dancer,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arab on Radar,
Marvin Gaye,
It's A Beautiful Day,
China Crisis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Animal Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
Audionom,
Sight & Sound,
Bauhaus,
Sällskapet,
Avey Tare,
Brick,
Derrick May,
Soul II Soul,
Ronan,
Con Funk Shun,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.