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 Azerbaijan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Slick Rick to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
David McCallum,
Spoonie Gee,
Roxy Music,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wolf Eyes,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Modern Lovers,
Lightning Bolt,
the Germs,
The Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roger Hodgson,
Dawn Penn,
Hot Snakes,
Camberwell Now,
Roxette,
Neil Young,
The Zeros,
The Trojans,
Jerry's Kids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Litter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Easy Going,
Kayak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Deadbeat,
Q65,
Panda Bear,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
These Immortal Souls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Qualms,
John Lydon,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Slick Rick,
Shuggie Otis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Circle Jerks,
10cc,
Barclay James Harvest,
Toni Rubio,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Fuzztones,
The Saints,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Guru Guru,
Tomorrow,
Robert Hood,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Make Up,
Eve St. Jones,
Dennis Brown,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Spandau Ballet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Mojo Men,
Fat Boys,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.