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 Korea North and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 Wings to the rap 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Max Romeo,
48th St. Collective,
Leonard Cohen,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Bootsy Collins,
The Birthday Party,
Eli Mardock,
Desert Stars,
Minnie Riperton,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Association,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Little Man,
L. Decosne,
Charles Mingus,
Matthew Halsall,
Half Japanese,
PIL,
The Toasters,
Letta Mbulu,
U.S. Maple,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ludus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amon Düül,
The Associates,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mars,
Yaz,
Bizarre Inc.,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Smoke,
Kenny Larkin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Black Bananas,
A Certain Ratio,
Soft Machine,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Sherman,
Delta 5,
Hasil Adkins,
Marmalade,
The Monochrome Set,
Radiopuhelimet,
EPMD,
John Lydon,
Television Personalities,
The Evens,
Brass Construction,
The Moleskins,
Adolescents,
Ken Boothe,
D'Angelo,
Johnny Clarke,
Janne Schatter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.