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 Pakistan and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 linndrum 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 Anakelly to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All The Five Americans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Trojans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Busters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Shadows of Knight,
Neu!,
Grey Daturas,
Aloha Tigers,
The Stooges,
Rites of Spring,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Carl Craig,
Outsiders,
Half Japanese,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
Donny Hathaway,
Theoretical Girls,
Von Mondo,
Isaac Hayes,
Q and Not U,
Al Stewart,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Clear Light,
These Immortal Souls,
Nils Olav,
Schoolly D,
Robert Wyatt,
Don Cherry,
Faraquet,
Max Romeo,
Pulsallama,
Pantytec,
Godley & Creme,
Inner City,
Tears for Fears,
Motorama,
Barry Ungar,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mandrill,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronan,
Charles Mingus,
Youth Brigade,
Arab on Radar,
Scion,
Eddi Front,
Tubeway Army,
Morten Harket,
John Foxx,
Chris & Cosey,
The Happenings,
Henry Cow,
Sixth Finger,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.