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 Macedonia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 Panda Bear to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Christie 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
cv313,
Young Marble Giants,
Hasil Adkins,
Scan 7,
The Velvet Underground,
10cc,
Deadbeat,
Theoretical Girls,
Kayak,
World's Most,
The Leaves,
Cheater Slicks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Byron Stingily,
Frankie Knuckles,
A Certain Ratio,
Deepchord,
Sun City Girls,
Dark Day,
Kurtis Blow,
Little Man,
Alphaville,
This Heat,
Talk Talk,
Ituana,
Porter Ricks,
Unrelated Segments,
Jeff Mills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harmonia,
Henry Cow,
The Index,
Yazoo,
Matthew Halsall,
Idris Muhammad,
Jeru the Damaja,
Electric Prunes,
Schoolly D,
The Fortunes,
The Neon Judgement,
Saccharine Trust,
Faust,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Clear Light,
K-Klass,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
Funkadelic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gabor Szabo,
Das Ding,
Quadrant,
Robert Hood,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
T. Rex,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.