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 Syria and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Barclay James Harvest to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Last Poets 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Porter Ricks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eurythmics,
CMW,
Excepter,
Josef K,
Eden Ahbez,
Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Surgeon,
Shuggie Otis,
Thompson Twins,
Khruangbin,
Eli Mardock,
Crime,
Danielle Patucci,
Popol Vuh,
Peter and Kerry,
Gong,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Spoonie Gee,
Sam Rivers,
Stiv Bators,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Vogues,
Bootsy Collins,
the Germs,
Bauhaus,
Motorama,
Scientists,
Qualms,
The Real Kids,
Bluetip,
The Knickerbockers,
Ten City,
Average White Band,
One Last Wish,
Soul II Soul,
Minor Threat,
The Saints,
Rod Modell,
Intrusion,
Sandy B,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jawbox,
The Human League,
Anakelly,
Fela Kuti,
Scan 7,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cal Tjader,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Symarip,
Deepchord,
Pole,
Mo-Dettes,
the Sonics,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.