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 Guinea-Bissau and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Terry Callier to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Outsiders,
The Dead C,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Skatalites,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Foxx,
Boogie Down Productions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Wells,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Andrew Hill,
Kerri Chandler,
T.S.O.L.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Henry Cow,
Avey Tare,
Sight & Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Public Enemy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Byrd,
Sound Behaviour,
The Move,
Ultra Naté,
X-101,
MC5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Unwound,
Pantaleimon,
Gang of Four,
Nirvana,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hot Snakes,
the Human League,
Whodini,
Big Daddy Kane,
Robert Görl,
Hashim,
Prince Buster,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Black Dice,
Hasil Adkins,
Khruangbin,
Loose Ends,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ituana,
The Offenders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Vogues,
Underground Resistance,
Kool Moe Dee,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.