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 Seychelles and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Maurizio to the grime 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 organ and a chamberlin 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 rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Monks,
Sun Ra,
Patti Smith,
Kayak,
Chris & Cosey,
Ultravox,
Anthony Braxton,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Görl,
The Invisible,
Mark Hollis,
Thee Headcoats,
Mission of Burma,
ABC,
Heaven 17,
Inner City,
Animal Collective,
Matthew Bourne,
Cheater Slicks,
A Certain Ratio,
Colin Newman,
Drexciya,
Wolf Eyes,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Main Source,
This Heat,
Todd Rundgren,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Essential Logic,
Q65,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Human League,
Los Fastidios,
Von Mondo,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
John Holt,
Kas Product,
Ralphi Rosario,
Zapp,
The Wake,
the Human League,
Hardrive,
R.M.O.,
Brand Nubian,
The Walker Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unrelated Segments,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy Collins,
Qualms,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Fluxion,
James White and The Blacks,
Lou Reed,
Amazonics,
Arthur Verocai,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.