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 Mozambique and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Gabor Szabo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Rosa Yemen,
Average White Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Erykah Badu,
Warsaw,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wire,
Todd Terry,
The Fuzztones,
Basic Channel,
Talk Talk,
Anakelly,
Altered Images,
Slick Rick,
The Raincoats,
Yazoo,
Alton Ellis,
Joensuu 1685,
Deakin,
Lou Christie,
Fela Kuti,
Darondo,
UT,
Bootsy Collins,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Sonics,
Blossom Toes,
Roxy Music,
X-102,
The Selecter,
Magma,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang Starr,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
The Kinks,
Sixth Finger,
Minutemen,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yellowson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Qualms,
Soul II Soul,
Barrington Levy,
The Sound,
Traffic Nightmare,
Derrick May,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The United States of America,
Main Source,
Mo-Dettes,
Sound Behaviour,
Circle Jerks,
Quantec,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Chrome,
Rites of Spring,
Crooked Eye,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.