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 Malta and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Eden Ahbez to the jazz 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s 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 R.M.O. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Al Stewart,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed,
The Doors,
The Sonics,
U.S. Maple,
David Bowie,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Smoke,
Eden Ahbez,
Alice Coltrane,
Iggy Pop,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang Starr,
Barbara Tucker,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Residents,
Angry Samoans,
Max Romeo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Yellowson,
Quantec,
Be Bop Deluxe,
10cc,
Ituana,
Bronski Beat,
Tim Buckley,
Jeru the Damaja,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joe Finger,
The Last Poets,
Johnny Clarke,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lightning Bolt,
kango's stein massive,
Faust,
June Days,
In Retrospect,
Godley & Creme,
The Stooges,
MC5,
Alison Limerick,
Gabor Szabo,
Eurythmics,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ornette Coleman,
Ralphi Rosario,
Main Source,
Jimmy McGriff,
Fela Kuti,
The American Breed,
Groovy Waters,
Althea and Donna,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.