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 Slovakia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Flipper to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Agent Orange,
Kool Moe Dee,
CMW,
Derrick Morgan,
Sixth Finger,
The Monochrome Set,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Five Americans,
Qualms,
Wally Richardson,
The Neon Judgement,
Bootsy Collins,
Piero Umiliani,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Doobie Brothers,
DJ Style,
The Fire Engines,
The Associates,
In Retrospect,
The Star Department,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Tremeloes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Joensuu 1685,
Joy Division,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Hardrive,
Gil Scott Heron,
Rapeman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Donny Hathaway,
James White and The Blacks,
Outsiders,
Q and Not U,
Fear,
Matthew Halsall,
Simply Red,
Joe Finger,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sugar Minott,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Section 25,
The Grass Roots,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
A Certain Ratio,
Gabor Szabo,
The Electric Prunes,
Organ,
Faraquet,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispy Ambulance,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Glenn Branca,
The Zeros,
Icehouse,
MDC,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Charles Mingus,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.