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 Cuba and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Trumans Water to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Clear Light,
Pylon,
Echospace,
Erasure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cluster,
Avey Tare,
The Pretty Things,
The Move,
Panda Bear,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Flesh Eaters,
Make Up,
Sandy B,
The Cure,
Gong,
Jeff Lynne,
R.M.O.,
Steve Hackett,
Brand Nubian,
The Vogues,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Masters at Work,
Minutemen,
New Age Steppers,
The Fortunes,
cv313,
Television,
Eric Dolphy,
X-101,
Ornette Coleman,
Warren Ellis,
Grey Daturas,
Sister Nancy,
Zapp,
Outsiders,
Anthony Braxton,
Deadbeat,
The Fugs,
The Cowsills,
China Crisis,
Toni Rubio,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Motions,
Brass Construction,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mandrill,
Jacques Brel,
The Moody Blues,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
The Dead C,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Hill,
The Velvet Underground,
Danielle Patucci,
Bad Manners,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.