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 Somalia 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eric Dolphy to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Janne Schatter,
Max Romeo,
Section 25,
Black Bananas,
Cybotron,
The Kinks,
Gichy Dan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kayak,
The Red Krayola,
Matthew Halsall,
Sound Behaviour,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Enemy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scott Walker,
Jeff Lynne,
Echospace,
Television,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Susan Cadogan,
The Techniques,
This Heat,
Robert Wyatt,
World's Most,
Toni Rubio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
Dead Boys,
Jacob Miller,
T.S.O.L.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Marshall Jefferson,
Henry Cow,
Model 500,
B.T. Express,
Lungfish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Letta Mbulu,
Man Parrish,
Radio Birdman,
X-Ray Spex,
Fat Boys,
ABC,
Y Pants,
The Seeds,
The Selecter,
Lightning Bolt,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dark Day,
Rosa Yemen,
Archie Shepp,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nirvana,
Urselle,
Aaron Thompson,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
James White and The Blacks,
The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans, The Trojans.
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.