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 Chad and from Glasgow.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fatback Band to the grunge 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Mummies,
Minor Threat,
Kevin Saunderson,
Whodini,
Gabor Szabo,
Cheater Slicks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joyce Sims,
DJ Sneak,
The Red Krayola,
Franke,
Subhumans,
Neil Young,
DNA,
Goldenarms,
Jerry's Kids,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Talk Talk,
Albert Ayler,
Silicon Teens,
Schoolly D,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Robert Görl,
Roxy Music,
E-Dancer,
David McCallum,
the Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Skriet,
LL Cool J,
Eddi Front,
Joe Smooth,
Gang Green,
Echospace,
John Coltrane,
Ornette Coleman,
Mad Mike,
Fela Kuti,
Buzzcocks,
Matthew Bourne,
Absolute Body Control,
New York Dolls,
Tears for Fears,
Carl Craig,
The Grass Roots,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ludus,
the Human League,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.