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 Jordan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and London.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Tropical Tobacco to the techno 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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Danielle Patucci record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
Isaac Hayes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jacob Miller,
Peter and Kerry,
Au Pairs,
cv313,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Frankie Knuckles,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lakeside,
The Shadows of Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lower 48,
Sixth Finger,
Stiv Bators,
Terry Callier,
Susan Cadogan,
JFA,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers,
The Velvet Underground,
La Düsseldorf,
The Moody Blues,
Agent Orange,
the Sonics,
Second Layer,
The Divine Comedy,
Q and Not U,
The Young Rascals,
the Swans,
Deakin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Matthew Bourne,
Animal Collective,
Darondo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barbara Tucker,
June of 44,
Kerrie Biddell,
Morten Harket,
Subhumans,
Barry Ungar,
Young Marble Giants,
Eric Dolphy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Brothers Johnson,
Gang Green,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Davy DMX,
Sällskapet,
Black Pus,
Minor Threat,
Eddi Front,
Rosa Yemen,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.