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 Monaco and from Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 DJ Sneak to the funk 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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth 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 '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 Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Chrome,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Curtis Mayfield,
Moby Grape,
UT,
Alice Coltrane,
Rosa Yemen,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxy Music,
Janne Schatter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eurythmics,
Interpol,
Tom Boy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Cameo,
Thee Headcoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Byron Stingily,
Spandau Ballet,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
Dark Day,
Aural Exciters,
The Smoke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bill Near,
Fear,
Basic Channel,
Soul Sonic Force,
FM Einheit,
Ken Boothe,
The Fall,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
David Axelrod,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fluxion,
Radio Birdman,
Rites of Spring,
Eric B and Rakim,
Hoover,
The Fortunes,
Model 500,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soulsonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Suburban Knight,
Quadrant,
Robert Wyatt,
The Divine Comedy,
World's Most,
The Toasters,
Erykah Badu,
Young Marble Giants,
Jacques Brel,
Sugar Minott,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.