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 France and from Toronto.
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 Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe 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 Curtis Mayfield to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Boz Scaggs,
the Bar-Kays,
Flipper,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Massinfluence,
Subhumans,
Matthew Bourne,
David Bowie,
K-Klass,
Bluetip,
The Raincoats,
KRS-One,
Trumans Water,
Barbara Tucker,
Smog,
Rod Modell,
The J.B.'s,
Blossom Toes,
The Blackbyrds,
Derrick Morgan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Circle Jerks,
Girls At Our Best!,
R.M.O.,
Josef K,
UT,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Music Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Vladislav Delay,
The Slackers,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sugar Minott,
Minny Pops,
Camouflage,
The Kinks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tim Buckley,
Fad Gadget,
Iggy Pop,
Dennis Brown,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mr. Review,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Michelle Simonal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eden Ahbez,
David McCallum,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kurtis Blow,
JFA,
Jawbox,
Jerry's Kids,
Hot Snakes,
Zero Boys,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.