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 Gabon and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Lakeside to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
T.S.O.L.,
Blancmange,
B.T. Express,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Toasters,
Terry Callier,
Altered Images,
The Vogues,
Derrick Morgan,
Technova,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Carl Craig,
The Raincoats,
World's Most,
The Young Rascals,
Thee Headcoats,
Neil Young,
Erykah Badu,
Archie Shepp,
John Lydon,
Jandek,
Anthony Braxton,
Todd Terry,
Camberwell Now,
Yusef Lateef,
Idris Muhammad,
Black Bananas,
Television,
John Holt,
the Bar-Kays,
Blossom Toes,
Amazonics,
The Blackbyrds,
The Trojans,
The Detroit Cobras,
John Cale,
Yellowson,
Cal Tjader,
Slave,
MC5,
Bill Wells,
Marc Almond,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Harmonia,
Peter and Kerry,
Zapp,
The Fire Engines,
ABC,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Thompson Twins,
Mark Hollis,
Electric Prunes,
Roger Hodgson,
X-102,
Funky Four + One,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Zero Boys,
Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force, Soulsonic Force.
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.