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 Ecuador and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro 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 Robert Wyatt to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Mantronix,
These Immortal Souls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Invisible,
Todd Terry,
Urselle,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gong,
John Lydon,
Ornette Coleman,
Thompson Twins,
Don Cherry,
The Black Dice,
Franke,
Quando Quango,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Leaves,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aural Exciters,
The Neon Judgement,
Basic Channel,
Soulsonic Force,
Gabor Szabo,
cv313,
Schoolly D,
Malaria!,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camouflage,
Skaos,
This Heat,
D'Angelo,
John Cale,
Gil Scott Heron,
Byron Stingily,
Cluster,
Maurizio,
Smog,
Suicide,
the Slits,
The J.B.'s,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Livin' Joy,
La Düsseldorf,
The Sound,
Adolescents,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Vainqueur,
The American Breed,
The Velvet Underground,
Deakin,
James White and The Blacks,
Junior Murvin,
Anakelly,
Black Moon,
Neil Young,
Fluxion,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Move,
Motorama, Motorama, Motorama, Motorama.
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.