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 Equatorial Guinea and from Woodstock.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Simply Red to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
David McCallum,
Sarah Menescal,
Hoover,
Bad Manners,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Evens,
Rapeman,
Morten Harket,
The Misunderstood,
Aloha Tigers,
Severed Heads,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gap Band,
Donald Byrd,
Unwound,
Young Marble Giants,
Groovy Waters,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Big Daddy Kane,
New York Dolls,
Slick Rick,
Rosa Yemen,
Sugar Minott,
Joe Smooth,
June Days,
Eric Copeland,
Stetsasonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Toasters,
The Litter,
Electric Prunes,
Eli Mardock,
OOIOO,
Animal Collective,
Dorothy Ashby,
China Crisis,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacob Miller,
Camberwell Now,
AZ,
Von Mondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Lalann,
Joyce Sims,
Khruangbin,
the Soft Cell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Darondo,
Youth Brigade,
Lindisfarne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Shuggie Otis,
Judy Mowatt,
DNA,
Davy DMX,
Roy Ayers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
The Motions,
Camouflage,
The Angels of Light,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.