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 Paraguay and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Stereo Dub to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Leonard Cohen,
Roy Ayers,
Aural Exciters,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Sonics,
Second Layer,
Warren Ellis,
Roxy Music,
MDC,
Freddie Wadling,
Flipper,
Bizarre Inc.,
Patti Smith,
Sam Rivers,
JFA,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Pus,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Animal Collective,
Shuggie Otis,
Agent Orange,
Shoche,
Porter Ricks,
Simply Red,
Avey Tare,
Aswad,
Barrington Levy,
Erasure,
X-Ray Spex,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Vogues,
Gastr Del Sol,
Roxette,
Johnny Clarke,
Flash Fearless,
Mo-Dettes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
Thompson Twins,
Scrapy,
Tom Boy,
Mark Hollis,
Boz Scaggs,
Severed Heads,
Vainqueur,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
UT,
Metal Thangz,
Delta 5,
Schoolly D,
the Human League,
Neil Young,
Japan,
Slave,
The Birthday Party,
The Index,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.