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 Vanuatu and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the punk 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Anakelly,
Throbbing Gristle,
D'Angelo,
Fat Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Negative Approach,
Main Source,
Rod Modell,
Sex Pistols,
James White and The Blacks,
Harpers Bizarre,
Don Cherry,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Eden Ahbez,
Moss Icon,
Harry Pussy,
Goldenarms,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mark Hollis,
The Gap Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Music Machine,
Vladislav Delay,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Velvet Underground,
B.T. Express,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Little Man,
Easy Going,
Reagan Youth,
Alphaville,
Jesper Dahlback,
Roxy Music,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sugar Minott,
Davy DMX,
Wings,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bill Near,
Interpol,
Hot Snakes,
L. Decosne,
Jacques Brel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Yazoo,
Harmonia,
The Remains,
Glenn Branca,
Avey Tare,
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Fortunes,
Lower 48,
Connie Case,
Bush Tetras,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.