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 Peru and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Donald Fagen 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 Camberwell Now to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Freddie Wadling tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Glenn Branca,
Reuben Wilson,
Soul II Soul,
The Offenders,
Ossler,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shoche,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Motions,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Electric Prunes,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sam Rivers,
Amazonics,
Guru Guru,
Oblivians,
The Count Five,
Grauzone,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eve St. Jones,
Cheater Slicks,
Parry Music,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
Jerry's Kids,
Masters at Work,
Skarface,
Subhumans,
Fluxion,
Lalo Schifrin,
Excepter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eric Dolphy,
Make Up,
Rakim,
Desert Stars,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Surgeon,
Lakeside,
Yusef Lateef,
Jacob Miller,
Fat Boys,
World's Most,
Marcia Griffiths,
Loose Ends,
Johnny Clarke,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
The United States of America,
Cymande,
David Bowie,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Organ,
The Gladiators,
Cameo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radio Birdman,
the Sonics,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.