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 Liechtenstein and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 James White and The Blacks 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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Slackers,
Ituana,
Roy Ayers,
Lalann,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Franke,
Neil Young,
Pantytec,
Stiv Bators,
Sam Rivers,
Lebanon Hanover,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun City Girls,
Smog,
Howard Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Massinfluence,
The New Christs,
Iggy Pop,
Ponytail,
Severed Heads,
Ludus,
The Golliwogs,
The Red Krayola,
Alton Ellis,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Avey Tare,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marshall Jefferson,
Subhumans,
Wings,
Radiohead,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Magma,
Deakin,
Bluetip,
Jacques Brel,
The Skatalites,
Babytalk,
Pulsallama,
Judy Mowatt,
MC5,
Unrelated Segments,
Au Pairs,
Delta 5,
Country Teasers,
Byron Stingily,
Crooked Eye,
kango's stein massive,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vladislav Delay,
Flash Fearless,
Darondo,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.