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 Tunisia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the rock 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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faust record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
The Saints,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ronnie Foster,
Stetsasonic,
Robert Hood,
The Barracudas,
Peter and Kerry,
Kenny Larkin,
Crooked Eye,
Warren Ellis,
The Raincoats,
Vainqueur,
Nas,
Boredoms,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Litter,
The Velvet Underground,
OOIOO,
the Soft Cell,
Sandy B,
The Doors,
Skriet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jawbox,
Sound Behaviour,
Pussy Galore,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Buzzcocks,
The Seeds,
Piero Umiliani,
Television,
Glambeats Corp.,
cv313,
Intrusion,
Quando Quango,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eric Copeland,
Simply Red,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Massinfluence,
David Axelrod,
R.M.O.,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Cal Tjader,
Icehouse,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul II Soul,
Freddie Wadling,
Harmonia,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Byron Stingily,
Adolescents,
Yazoo,
T.S.O.L.,
Bill Near,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.