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 Afghanistan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ultra Naté to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon,
Wire,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Janne Schatter,
Max Romeo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Smoke,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suicide,
Black Moon,
The Music Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Spoonie Gee,
Fat Boys,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Womack,
Theoretical Girls,
Animal Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alphaville,
Can,
The Knickerbockers,
Neil Young,
The Barracudas,
Boz Scaggs,
The J.B.'s,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marmalade,
Slick Rick,
Panda Bear,
CMW,
Infiniti,
Easy Going,
Pagans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Green,
The Slits,
Arthur Verocai,
Mary Jane Girls,
Symarip,
Howard Jones,
Amazonics,
Susan Cadogan,
June of 44,
Suburban Knight,
Sly & The Family Stone,
UT,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kas Product,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.