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 Greece and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
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 Radio Birdman to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Saints. All the underground hits.
All Laurel Aitken tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glambeats Corp.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Erasure,
Youth Brigade,
Organ,
Alton Ellis,
Curtis Mayfield,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cheater Slicks,
The Black Dice,
Leonard Cohen,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mummies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masters at Work,
Eve St. Jones,
Half Japanese,
Nils Olav,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Quando Quango,
Simply Red,
Tres Demented,
The Moody Blues,
Kaleidoscope,
Sugar Minott,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Human League,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
The Music Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Grandmaster Flash,
Reagan Youth,
D'Angelo,
The Evens,
In Retrospect,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
U.S. Maple,
Warren Ellis,
Scion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Altered Images,
Flash Fearless,
One Last Wish,
Vainqueur,
Unwound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Motions,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Malaria!,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The American Breed,
Joe Smooth,
Joe Finger,
Thee Headcoats,
Lindisfarne,
Pierre Henry,
The Fire Engines,
Animal Collective,
The Monochrome Set,
Second Layer,
The Raincoats,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.