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 Samoa and from Lagos.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Andrew Hill to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Joe Smooth,
Nas,
Shoche,
LL Cool J,
Youth Brigade,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Durutti Column,
KRS-One,
Massinfluence,
The Sound,
Japan,
Camouflage,
Mad Mike,
The Happenings,
It's A Beautiful Day,
David McCallum,
The Selecter,
Wolf Eyes,
Godley & Creme,
Royal Trux,
Matthew Bourne,
Soft Cell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mantronix,
The Invisible,
Supertramp,
DJ Style,
Kas Product,
Yusef Lateef,
Grey Daturas,
The Move,
Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Gang Starr,
Minny Pops,
Pere Ubu,
Aaron Thompson,
Marcia Griffiths,
Warsaw,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Soft Cell,
The Monks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Maleditus Sound,
Main Source,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Dirtbombs,
The Pretty Things,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Q65,
The Leaves,
June Days,
Hardrive,
Black Flag,
Sällskapet,
Eden Ahbez,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.