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 Mongolia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Alison Limerick to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lee Hazlewood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sight & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Eden Ahbez,
Fluxion,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ralphi Rosario,
Quando Quango,
Heaven 17,
Hasil Adkins,
Pussy Galore,
The Monochrome Set,
The Blues Magoos,
Yusef Lateef,
Joensuu 1685,
The Birthday Party,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
David Bowie,
Mr. Review,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Television,
Rosa Yemen,
the Association,
Simply Red,
Surgeon,
Vladislav Delay,
Josef K,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Brand Nubian,
Half Japanese,
Harpers Bizarre,
Crime,
Leonard Cohen,
DJ Style,
Aaron Thompson,
Rites of Spring,
Massinfluence,
Todd Terry,
John Lydon,
Junior Murvin,
The Fall,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Vogues,
Sparks,
Ludus,
Alison Limerick,
The Remains,
Sarah Menescal,
Cecil Taylor,
The Seeds,
The Names,
Mantronix,
8 Eyed Spy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moebius,
Livin' Joy,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.