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 Serbia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
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 Rhythm & Sound to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Flash Fearless,
Duran Duran,
Ralphi Rosario,
Icehouse,
Ossler,
Crispy Ambulance,
Liliput,
The Smoke,
Albert Ayler,
Electric Prunes,
The Saints,
Eve St. Jones,
Pere Ubu,
The Cowsills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nico,
Warsaw,
Arab on Radar,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Negative Approach,
Goldenarms,
the Association,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marc Almond,
Robert Görl,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fatback Band,
Nirvana,
MC5,
Piero Umiliani,
Essential Logic,
Kerri Chandler,
Scientists,
The United States of America,
The Blues Magoos,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
Patti Smith,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fortunes,
Peter & Gordon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Judy Mowatt,
Depeche Mode,
Bluetip,
Kas Product,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
John Holt,
John Foxx,
Skaos,
Drexciya,
Idris Muhammad,
Agitation Free,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sandy B,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cal Tjader,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.