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 Iraq and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Scan 7 to the crunk 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Bar-Kays,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
La Düsseldorf,
The Star Department,
The Fall,
James White and The Blacks,
Josef K,
China Crisis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Maleditus Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Enemy,
Essential Logic,
The Gories,
The Dead C,
The Selecter,
Susan Cadogan,
John Holt,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Searchers,
Shuggie Otis,
Malaria!,
Barbara Tucker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bizarre Inc.,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
ABBA,
Sixth Finger,
Sparks,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Half Japanese,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Knickerbockers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Dennis Brown,
Nick Fraelich,
Joyce Sims,
Dave Gahan,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sandy B,
Jacques Brel,
Patti Smith,
Magazine,
Sun Ra,
Albert Ayler,
Funkadelic,
Ronan,
Duran Duran,
Model 500, Model 500, Model 500, Model 500.
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.