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 Guyana and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manchester.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Schoolly D to the rap 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Gichy Dan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sparks,
Zero Boys,
The Moleskins,
Gang Starr,
Suicide,
Sun Ra,
Whodini,
Schoolly D,
Jeff Lynne,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Blackbyrds,
Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
The Raincoats,
The Human League,
Bad Manners,
David Bowie,
Barbara Tucker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grandmaster Flash,
Black Flag,
Ice-T,
Scrapy,
Loose Ends,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grauzone,
Peter & Gordon,
Amon Düül,
Delta 5,
Eden Ahbez,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Golliwogs,
Black Pus,
The Barracudas,
Neu!,
The Last Poets,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Byron Stingily,
Camberwell Now,
Charles Mingus,
Aural Exciters,
Kaleidoscope,
The Five Americans,
Lightning Bolt,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joyce Sims,
Niagra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Nirvana,
The Angels of Light,
The Associates,
Moss Icon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.