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 Bahrain and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer 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 Shoche to the disco 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Massinfluence,
The Raincoats,
Mantronix,
Saccharine Trust,
Kevin Saunderson,
Aaron Thompson,
Wally Richardson,
Donny Hathaway,
Ponytail,
Cal Tjader,
Echospace,
Los Fastidios,
Fatback Band,
Wasted Youth,
Theoretical Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fortunes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Icehouse,
Eli Mardock,
The Human League,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fela Kuti,
the Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
Soul II Soul,
Chrome,
Pierre Henry,
Bush Tetras,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Desert Stars,
Todd Rundgren,
Qualms,
Prince Buster,
Pole,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
X-Ray Spex,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Flash Fearless,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joey Negro,
Roy Ayers,
Lower 48,
Mo-Dettes,
Shuggie Otis,
Moss Icon,
Model 500,
Masters at Work,
Tommy Roe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Pretty Things,
The Buckinghams,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Scott Walker,
The Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fluxion,
James White and The Blacks,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Mojo Men,
Guru Guru,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.