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 the UAE and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Moby Grape to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Godley & Creme,
Kenny Larkin,
Carl Craig,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Five Americans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Sherman,
Steve Hackett,
Ludus,
Flipper,
Tomorrow,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Talk Talk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Black Flag,
Glenn Branca,
Intrusion,
Radiohead,
Camberwell Now,
OOIOO,
The Dead C,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Supertramp,
Metal Thangz,
The Toasters,
Matthew Bourne,
Dorothy Ashby,
D'Angelo,
Soulsonic Force,
Rakim,
Young Marble Giants,
Amon Düül II,
Amazonics,
Iggy Pop,
Mad Mike,
Scan 7,
Kayak,
Schoolly D,
H. Thieme,
Saccharine Trust,
The New Christs,
U.S. Maple,
Nik Kershaw,
Motorama,
Harmonia,
The Black Dice,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
PIL,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quantec,
Cheater Slicks,
Gang of Four,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Bobby Byrd,
Ultra Naté,
Anakelly,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.