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 Ukraine and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Graham Central Station to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Funky Four + One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
The Modern Lovers,
These Immortal Souls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Faraquet,
Joyce Sims,
Severed Heads,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fear,
Skriet,
ABC,
Essential Logic,
Khruangbin,
Alison Limerick,
Black Bananas,
Joe Finger,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Dawn Penn,
Country Teasers,
Sound Behaviour,
Sonic Youth,
Audionom,
Vladislav Delay,
Eric Copeland,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cowsills,
Liliput,
DJ Style,
Moebius,
Supertramp,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hashim,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pierre Henry,
Anthony Braxton,
8 Eyed Spy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Suicide,
John Cale,
Adolescents,
Royal Trux,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cymande,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Victims,
Ornette Coleman,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Massinfluence,
Quadrant,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fire Engines,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Robert Wyatt,
Ultravox,
Eve St. Jones,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.