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 Latvia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Letta Mbulu 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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
Jimmy McGriff,
Average White Band,
a-ha,
The Motions,
EPMD,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
Von Mondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Flamin' Groovies,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott Heron,
Big Daddy Kane,
Shuggie Otis,
Whodini,
Donald Byrd,
Thompson Twins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ken Boothe,
Lou Christie,
Susan Cadogan,
The Mojo Men,
Dual Sessions,
Young Marble Giants,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Music Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Slick Rick,
The New Christs,
Yaz,
Matthew Halsall,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Busters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Con Funk Shun,
World's Most,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Moleskins,
The Offenders,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David McCallum,
The Monochrome Set,
The Fuzztones,
Wings,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Frankie Knuckles,
Basic Channel,
Amon Düül,
Magazine,
AZ,
DJ Sneak,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oneida,
Mark Hollis,
cv313,
Aloha Tigers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Derrick May,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.