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 Japan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 marimba 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 Ten City to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Sound Behaviour,
Soulsonic Force,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sugar Minott,
Lower 48,
Lightning Bolt,
Agitation Free,
F. McDonald,
Aloha Tigers,
The Offenders,
The Monochrome Set,
New Order,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Charles Mingus,
Girls At Our Best!,
Yusef Lateef,
Maurizio,
Procol Harum,
Clear Light,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Intrusion,
Jerry's Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pantytec,
The Beau Brummels,
Sly & The Family Stone,
EPMD,
Malaria!,
Don Cherry,
Echospace,
Yaz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Quantec,
Sonny Sharrock,
Graham Central Station,
CMW,
Cecil Taylor,
Rotary Connection,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hardrive,
cv313,
Leonard Cohen,
Ornette Coleman,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pagans,
Basic Channel,
Q and Not U,
Interpol,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Wells,
H. Thieme,
Suburban Knight,
Ludus,
Althea and Donna,
Maleditus Sound,
Gong,
Harmonia,
ABBA,
Slick Rick,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.