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 Bulgaria and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Hoover to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Joe Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crispian St. Peters,
Tom Boy,
Ronan,
Essential Logic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Angels of Light,
Popol Vuh,
The Monks,
U.S. Maple,
Kool Moe Dee,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Star Department,
Aswad,
Lower 48,
Thompson Twins,
Connie Case,
Chris & Cosey,
The Misunderstood,
Hashim,
Lou Christie,
The Golliwogs,
Peter and Kerry,
Prince Buster,
Arcadia,
Kerri Chandler,
Sun Ra,
Kurtis Blow,
Cameo,
Livin' Joy,
The Pretty Things,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scan 7,
The Kinks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Real Kids,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Green,
Fatback Band,
Jacob Miller,
Black Bananas,
Hoover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nick Fraelich,
a-ha,
Lakeside,
Pagans,
cv313,
Pole,
Eli Mardock,
The Electric Prunes,
Cecil Taylor,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
OOIOO,
Wings,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.