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 Palau and from Bologna.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 guitar 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 Whodini 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Quando Quango,
Robert Wyatt,
Reuben Wilson,
Symarip,
Tears for Fears,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Flamin' Groovies,
Icehouse,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pantytec,
The Kinks,
Guru Guru,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott Heron,
a-ha,
Lee Hazlewood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Agent Orange,
One Last Wish,
Radio Birdman,
Albert Ayler,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Fuzztones,
Kas Product,
Rhythm & Sound,
JFA,
Sound Behaviour,
Lower 48,
Ohio Players,
Sex Pistols,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Black Flag,
The Doors,
The Young Rascals,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
The Count Five,
Colin Newman,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
kango's stein massive,
Rosa Yemen,
Mars,
Nico,
Scratch Acid,
Gabor Szabo,
Idris Muhammad,
Fugazi,
Scientists,
10cc,
Siglo XX,
The Zeros,
Intrusion,
Eddi Front,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.