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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Groovy Waters to the funk 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Fat Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fluxion,
Junior Murvin,
Todd Rundgren,
Stetsasonic,
Toni Rubio,
The Fall,
The Gun Club,
Au Pairs,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
Maurizio,
Blancmange,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bluetip,
Terry Callier,
Arthur Verocai,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ituana,
Clear Light,
Schoolly D,
Wolf Eyes,
The Evens,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pierre Henry,
Infiniti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pagans,
Robert Wyatt,
the Soft Cell,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Darondo,
Nas,
Mars,
Livin' Joy,
Gabor Szabo,
T. Rex,
The Doobie Brothers,
Dual Sessions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Main Source,
Pantaleimon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Popol Vuh,
Supertramp,
Quantec,
The Gap Band,
Moss Icon,
Brass Construction,
Cybotron,
Malaria!,
Black Bananas,
Fear,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.