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 Syria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Susan Cadogan to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soul Sonic Force,
Slave,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Slackers,
the Soft Cell,
Skriet,
Mad Mike,
The Toasters,
Talk Talk,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Donny Hathaway,
Ken Boothe,
Quantec,
Swans,
Ultimate Spinach,
10cc,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tubeway Army,
The Offenders,
Guru Guru,
The Cowsills,
Ituana,
Ronan,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Count Five,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Animal Collective,
Soul II Soul,
Public Image Ltd.,
Suburban Knight,
Fugazi,
Fat Boys,
Soulsonic Force,
The Doors,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kerri Chandler,
The Cure,
The Sonics,
Monolake,
June Days,
Dual Sessions,
Blake Baxter,
Brick,
Arab on Radar,
Infiniti,
Janne Schatter,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Modern Lovers,
Minutemen,
Black Bananas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ludus,
Robert Görl,
Roger Hodgson,
Al Stewart,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.