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 Paraguay and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Prince Buster to the rock 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
kango's stein massive,
Joensuu 1685,
B.T. Express,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tommy Roe,
MC5,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wire,
Max Romeo,
The Index,
X-Ray Spex,
Swell Maps,
Howard Jones,
Aloha Tigers,
The Monochrome Set,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Sight & Sound,
The Toasters,
Godley & Creme,
Easy Going,
Terry Callier,
Index,
Matthew Halsall,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Idris Muhammad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nas,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ice-T,
Skaos,
Wolf Eyes,
Minutemen,
Adolescents,
KRS-One,
Basic Channel,
Ultra Naté,
Freddie Wadling,
Aswad,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slave,
Roger Hodgson,
David McCallum,
Circle Jerks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quadrant,
Barbara Tucker,
The Motions,
Pole,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
F. McDonald,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Music Machine,
Can,
Theoretical Girls,
Donald Byrd,
Alphaville,
Faraquet,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.