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 Palau and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Cairo.
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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Marc Almond to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
One Last Wish,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Al Stewart,
Agitation Free,
Todd Rundgren,
Schoolly D,
The Smoke,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Shuggie Otis,
Motorama,
Crash Course in Science,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tommy Roe,
AZ,
Scott Walker,
Nils Olav,
Black Moon,
Roxette,
Avey Tare,
Deepchord,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joe Finger,
Dead Boys,
Faraquet,
Stiv Bators,
Fear,
Ossler,
Sun City Girls,
The Stooges,
The Skatalites,
Goldenarms,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Grass Roots,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Hood,
Darondo,
Groovy Waters,
Sandy B,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eli Mardock,
New Age Steppers,
Japan,
John Lydon,
Urselle,
Cymande,
Hashim,
Sex Pistols,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scrapy,
Magazine,
David McCallum,
Ultimate Spinach,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Knickerbockers,
Bang On A Can,
The Gories,
June Days,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dorothy Ashby,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.