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 Morocco and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Leaves 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Curtis Mayfield record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Swell Maps,
Dawn Penn,
Arab on Radar,
Eric Copeland,
Joe Finger,
Sandy B,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Birthday Party,
The Gap Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Moon,
Steve Hackett,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Underground Resistance,
Dave Gahan,
Drexciya,
The Motions,
Von Mondo,
The Zeros,
The Misunderstood,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Sound,
Derrick May,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stiv Bators,
Mark Hollis,
Fela Kuti,
Jeff Lynne,
Audionom,
Sonic Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Warren Ellis,
The Residents,
PIL,
Boredoms,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Five Americans,
The Names,
T. Rex,
Jandek,
Aswad,
Easy Going,
the Fania All-Stars,
Smog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Barbara Tucker,
Crime,
Harry Pussy,
Deakin,
The Vogues,
Radiopuhelimet,
It's A Beautiful Day,
cv313,
Chris & Cosey,
Accadde A,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gang of Four,
Loose Ends,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.