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 Albania and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Kurtis Blow to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Fatback Band. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Todd Rundgren,
Intrusion,
Vainqueur,
Anakelly,
Excepter,
Second Layer,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ludus,
Sound Behaviour,
Davy DMX,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Index,
Yazoo,
Brand Nubian,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ronan,
Patti Smith,
The Victims,
Harpers Bizarre,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scan 7,
Cymande,
Sonic Youth,
Scrapy,
Sun Ra,
Aaron Thompson,
Fear,
Easy Going,
Groovy Waters,
The Five Americans,
Robert Wyatt,
The Happenings,
Lungfish,
Dual Sessions,
The Toasters,
Jandek,
Altered Images,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Minnie Riperton,
Deepchord,
the Germs,
Crispy Ambulance,
Dead Boys,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Leonard Cohen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kas Product,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
L. Decosne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Holt,
UT,
Silicon Teens,
H. Thieme,
the Sonics,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.