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 Kuwait and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Michael McDonald 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 Wolf Eyes to the electroclash 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Scratch Acid,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Remains,
Agent Orange,
Sister Nancy,
Pulsallama,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Todd Terry,
Marine Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
The Seeds,
The Angels of Light,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
The Stooges,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Loose Ends,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
The Gladiators,
Con Funk Shun,
the Association,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Radio Birdman,
the Normal,
The Kinks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Colin Newman,
Los Fastidios,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rotary Connection,
Black Sheep,
Jawbox,
Fugazi,
Wings,
Magazine,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Depeche Mode,
Scientists,
Clear Light,
Prince Buster,
Gang Green,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Charles Mingus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Litter,
Piero Umiliani,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
kango's stein massive,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sarah Menescal,
Joe Smooth,
Matthew Halsall,
Ornette Coleman,
Negative Approach,
Alison Limerick,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.