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 Sri Lanka and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Toni Rubio to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Robert Hood,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Normal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Wake,
Nico,
Sam Rivers,
The Saints,
The Fortunes,
Anthony Braxton,
Judy Mowatt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Section 25,
Funky Four + One,
Massinfluence,
John Holt,
the Human League,
Can,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
JFA,
Brand Nubian,
Soul Sonic Force,
Arthur Verocai,
Mary Jane Girls,
The American Breed,
The Doors,
The Golliwogs,
The Smiths,
Buzzcocks,
EPMD,
kango's stein massive,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
Circle Jerks,
The Skatalites,
Deadbeat,
Lou Christie,
Roxette,
Roxy Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Wally Richardson,
KRS-One,
CMW,
Josef K,
Eric B and Rakim,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Wasted Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Move,
Oneida,
Kas Product,
Agitation Free,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.