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 Jamaica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gichy Dan to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Country Teasers,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Monolake,
Erykah Badu,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang Starr,
Warren Ellis,
The Smiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Clarke,
Aloha Tigers,
Ronnie Foster,
Skriet,
the Association,
the Normal,
ABBA,
Harry Pussy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Music Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
The Slackers,
Lou Christie,
Lightning Bolt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rekid,
Black Sheep,
Pharoah Sanders,
Mission of Burma,
Japan,
Steve Hackett,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delon & Dalcan,
Section 25,
Dark Day,
Toni Rubio,
Deepchord,
Agitation Free,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camberwell Now,
The Star Department,
Max Romeo,
Ronan,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Con Funk Shun,
Shuggie Otis,
Marvin Gaye,
Davy DMX,
Sixth Finger,
ABC,
Fad Gadget,
Prince Buster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mantronix,
The Selecter,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.