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 Grenada and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 David Bowie to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Spandau Ballet,
The J.B.'s,
Thompson Twins,
U.S. Maple,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fat Boys,
Television Personalities,
The Walker Brothers,
DJ Style,
Ohio Players,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Franke,
Simply Red,
Bizarre Inc.,
ABC,
David Axelrod,
Al Stewart,
Inner City,
Sight & Sound,
Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Matthew Bourne,
Qualms,
the Soft Cell,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mars,
The Fugs,
K-Klass,
Marmalade,
Robert Wyatt,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Second Layer,
Agitation Free,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Star Department,
Black Flag,
Joey Negro,
Cameo,
Barry Ungar,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rosa Yemen,
LL Cool J,
Trumans Water,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Juan Atkins,
Supertramp,
Masters at Work,
Lyres,
The Flesh Eaters,
Oblivians,
Clear Light,
Wire,
Gong,
Animal Collective,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.