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 Madagascar and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 the Association to the disco 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
LL Cool J,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Can,
The Fall,
Fatback Band,
H. Thieme,
Flipper,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monolake,
Cecil Taylor,
Hashim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Last Poets,
Tropical Tobacco,
Glambeats Corp.,
Colin Newman,
Massinfluence,
Morten Harket,
James White and The Blacks,
Sound Behaviour,
PIL,
Chris Corsano,
Soul Sonic Force,
The New Christs,
The Moleskins,
Yusef Lateef,
JFA,
Skarface,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pere Ubu,
Anakelly,
Symarip,
Yaz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DJ Style,
Basic Channel,
Sight & Sound,
Deepchord,
Lakeside,
the Slits,
Steve Hackett,
Al Stewart,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bobby Byrd,
Ken Boothe,
Pole,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Smiths,
Oblivians,
Negative Approach,
Simply Red,
Amon Düül,
Mantronix,
Eric Copeland,
Brand Nubian,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.