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 Guinea-Bissau 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Lyon.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Neil Young,
Sex Pistols,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Mills,
Panda Bear,
Joensuu 1685,
Bad Manners,
John Coltrane,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mantronix,
Todd Rundgren,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
This Heat,
The Cowsills,
Talk Talk,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Oneida,
The Fugs,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric Copeland,
Negative Approach,
Fela Kuti,
Morten Harket,
Ice-T,
Nas,
Rakim,
Model 500,
Accadde A,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bootsy Collins,
The Offenders,
Barry Ungar,
Susan Cadogan,
Scion,
Isaac Hayes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gerry Rafferty,
Tomorrow,
Young Marble Giants,
Letta Mbulu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Oblivians,
Quando Quango,
Blossom Toes,
Lungfish,
Severed Heads,
Gabor Szabo,
Delta 5,
Kenny Larkin,
PIL,
The Sonics,
Harmonia,
Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter, Blake Baxter.
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.