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 Syria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe 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 Gregory Isaacs to the punk 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 The Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Janne Schatter,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jeff Mills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donald Byrd,
Rapeman,
Kaleidoscope,
The Techniques,
Arcadia,
Derrick Morgan,
Soft Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Black Moon,
Brass Construction,
Bauhaus,
The Happenings,
Todd Terry,
Ituana,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Moody Blues,
Spandau Ballet,
The Star Department,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dead C,
LL Cool J,
Amon Düül,
Michelle Simonal,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
PIL,
Judy Mowatt,
The Selecter,
Eden Ahbez,
Barbara Tucker,
Lou Reed,
Josef K,
Sandy B,
Mad Mike,
Ossler,
Drexciya,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
Eddi Front,
Easy Going,
The Gap Band,
Porter Ricks,
The Seeds,
Rites of Spring,
Hasil Adkins,
A Certain Ratio,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Urselle,
Camouflage,
Marvin Gaye,
Silicon Teens,
Quantec,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Fortunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.