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 Turkey and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 ABBA to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Excepter. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw 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 sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
L. Decosne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare,
Simply Red,
Soul II Soul,
The Monochrome Set,
Mr. Review,
Crispian St. Peters,
Q and Not U,
Nas,
R.M.O.,
Lindisfarne,
Andrew Hill,
Fatback Band,
Dawn Penn,
UT,
Basic Channel,
The Count Five,
Joensuu 1685,
Ituana,
Bluetip,
Alice Coltrane,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
The Real Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
ABC,
The Alarm Clocks,
Groovy Waters,
Fad Gadget,
Matthew Halsall,
The Residents,
Graham Central Station,
Todd Rundgren,
the Normal,
Grey Daturas,
The Birthday Party,
The Toasters,
Supertramp,
The Gap Band,
Patti Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Human League,
AZ,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Slave,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Faraquet,
La Düsseldorf,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sam Rivers,
One Last Wish,
The Fuzztones,
Magazine,
Sixth Finger,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hot Snakes,
Desert Stars,
The Mojo Men,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.