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 France and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Theoretical Girls,
Fluxion,
Dorothy Ashby,
Skaos,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Andrew Hill,
New York Dolls,
Rod Modell,
Siglo XX,
Heaven 17,
The Pop Group,
Skarface,
Hardrive,
The Searchers,
Crooked Eye,
Bad Manners,
Nik Kershaw,
Vainqueur,
The Kinks,
Au Pairs,
Tim Buckley,
Q and Not U,
World's Most,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Khruangbin,
Iggy Pop,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bronski Beat,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
Cecil Taylor,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
kango's stein massive,
Kenny Larkin,
Brick,
Nils Olav,
The Dead C,
Lakeside,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Al Stewart,
The Tremeloes,
Groovy Waters,
Warren Ellis,
Thee Headcoats,
Morten Harket,
Howard Jones,
The Fortunes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Move,
Mo-Dettes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pulsallama,
Ossler,
Erasure,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Litter,
Black Flag,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.