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 Estonia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zapp to the grunge 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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Tropical Tobacco,
Chrome,
a-ha,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dual Sessions,
Rapeman,
Symarip,
Arab on Radar,
Accadde A,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Faust,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
JFA,
KRS-One,
Adolescents,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Roxy Music,
Animal Collective,
Angry Samoans,
Half Japanese,
The Offenders,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
June Days,
Colin Newman,
Delta 5,
Sandy B,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Misunderstood,
David Axelrod,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bootsy Collins,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blake Baxter,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharoah Sanders,
The New Christs,
Arthur Verocai,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Khruangbin,
Joe Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Masters at Work,
Scan 7,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Maurizio,
Section 25,
Darondo,
The Velvet Underground,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Todd Rundgren,
Minny Pops,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Fortunes,
Urselle,
Marshall Jefferson,
Goldenarms,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.