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 Slovakia and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 MC5 to the electroclash 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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Godley & Creme,
48th St. Collective,
The Durutti Column,
The Tremeloes,
Malaria!,
June of 44,
Pantaleimon,
Shoche,
Lower 48,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Q and Not U,
Lalo Schifrin,
Television Personalities,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ludus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispian St. Peters,
Arthur Verocai,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra,
Little Man,
Agent Orange,
The Flesh Eaters,
La Düsseldorf,
the Human League,
ABC,
Hardrive,
The Index,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The J.B.'s,
Groovy Waters,
Flash Fearless,
Oblivians,
CMW,
Rekid,
The Golliwogs,
EPMD,
The Human League,
Bobby Womack,
Funky Four + One,
Bluetip,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camberwell Now,
Fluxion,
Sam Rivers,
Intrusion,
Althea and Donna,
Newcleus,
Schoolly D,
The Modern Lovers,
Crooked Eye,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
In Retrospect,
Brick,
Leonard Cohen,
Crash Course in Science,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.