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 Namibia and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 arpeggiator 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 10cc to the rap 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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Reuben Wilson,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The J.B.'s,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
The Kinks,
Agitation Free,
Public Image Ltd.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pagans,
The Remains,
Kas Product,
Trumans Water,
Model 500,
Heaven 17,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Hoover,
New Age Steppers,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Happenings,
X-101,
Mad Mike,
The Martian,
David Bowie,
Joe Finger,
Alphaville,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Sonics,
The Motions,
Arthur Verocai,
10cc,
Ludus,
Main Source,
Harmonia,
Maleditus Sound,
Radiohead,
Con Funk Shun,
Qualms,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pere Ubu,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anakelly,
Metal Thangz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scan 7,
Lyres,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David McCallum,
The Toasters,
KRS-One,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.