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 Turkey and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the dance 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
EPMD,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Duran Duran,
This Heat,
Godley & Creme,
Charles Mingus,
Erykah Badu,
The Happenings,
The Blackbyrds,
Freddie Wadling,
Colin Newman,
Robert Wyatt,
Stiv Bators,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Pop Group,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Buckinghams,
Andrew Hill,
Kerrie Biddell,
FM Einheit,
Ponytail,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pantaleimon,
Kayak,
Mandrill,
Altered Images,
Cecil Taylor,
Aloha Tigers,
Wings,
Kerri Chandler,
Schoolly D,
Lakeside,
Supertramp,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fad Gadget,
The Trojans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lee Hazlewood,
MDC,
Audionom,
Von Mondo,
The Vogues,
New Age Steppers,
Arthur Verocai,
The Divine Comedy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Metal Thangz,
Los Fastidios,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Junior Murvin,
Soul II Soul,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joy Division,
Visage,
Byron Stingily,
Zapp,
Patti Smith,
Brand Nubian,
Groovy Waters,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.