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 Singapore and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the dance 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Idris Muhammad,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Busters,
The Skatalites,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Oneida,
Inner City,
The Gun Club,
The Zeros,
Marine Girls,
Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Minnie Riperton,
Brand Nubian,
Alphaville,
Junior Murvin,
Spandau Ballet,
Arcadia,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bill Near,
Aaron Thompson,
The United States of America,
Danielle Patucci,
Bobby Sherman,
Chrome,
The Grass Roots,
Cecil Taylor,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Flag,
Scan 7,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxette,
Marcia Griffiths,
Josef K,
Cybotron,
T. Rex,
Procol Harum,
La Düsseldorf,
Surgeon,
Erykah Badu,
Ronnie Foster,
Depeche Mode,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Silicon Teens,
Second Layer,
Eurythmics,
LL Cool J,
Ice-T,
Au Pairs,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Newcleus,
The Neon Judgement,
This Heat,
Bad Manners,
Q and Not U,
Jacques Brel,
Deakin,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.