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 Luxembourg and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultra Naté,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
The Cramps,
Darondo,
Agitation Free,
Radio Birdman,
Q and Not U,
Amon Düül II,
Sun Ra,
The Shadows of Knight,
Johnny Clarke,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Yaz,
Wings,
Audionom,
Delta 5,
Kenny Larkin,
Siglo XX,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantytec,
Boz Scaggs,
Excepter,
The Searchers,
New Order,
The United States of America,
La Düsseldorf,
Metal Thangz,
Hot Snakes,
Suicide,
Cecil Taylor,
JFA,
Max Romeo,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jacques Brel,
Derrick Morgan,
Barrington Levy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joe Smooth,
Kas Product,
The Black Dice,
The Doors,
Procol Harum,
Eddi Front,
EPMD,
10cc,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Guru Guru,
The Move,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pierre Henry,
The New Christs,
The J.B.'s,
Gang Gang Dance,
Second Layer,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Harry Pussy,
The Five Americans,
Yusef Lateef,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.