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 Argentina and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the guitar 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 Alton Ellis to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ultramagnetic MC's. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sight & Sound,
Fatback Band,
The Remains,
Cybotron,
Max Romeo,
JFA,
Scion,
Crispy Ambulance,
kango's stein massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Marine Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Josef K,
B.T. Express,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Quando Quango,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tomorrow,
Freddie Wadling,
the Germs,
Roxette,
Symarip,
This Heat,
Sound Behaviour,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Moody Blues,
The American Breed,
Agent Orange,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Half Japanese,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pere Ubu,
Fugazi,
Chris Corsano,
Amazonics,
Alton Ellis,
James White and The Blacks,
Iggy Pop,
Liliput,
Grauzone,
Index,
Sun Ra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magazine,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aaron Thompson,
The Skatalites,
Boogie Down Productions,
Theoretical Girls,
Roxy Music,
Swell Maps,
Joe Smooth,
Donny Hathaway,
Lucky Dragons,
Babytalk,
Tubeway Army,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.