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 Ivory Coast and from London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ultravox 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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
E-Dancer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Minny Pops,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
B.T. Express,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Saccharine Trust,
Roger Hodgson,
The Victims,
Barbara Tucker,
The New Christs,
Groovy Waters,
Masters at Work,
Jandek,
Crooked Eye,
Todd Terry,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amon Düül,
John Holt,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Move,
Alton Ellis,
Minor Threat,
Arcadia,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Byrd,
Vainqueur,
Eric Copeland,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lindisfarne,
Bauhaus,
Panda Bear,
Chris & Cosey,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crime,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jeff Lynne,
Lalann,
Malaria!,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Roxette,
Thee Headcoats,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Real Kids,
Tears for Fears,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Fall,
Ohio Players,
Andrew Hill,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Womack,
Junior Murvin,
the Normal,
Barry Ungar,
Sister Nancy,
Godley & Creme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echospace,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.