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 Vanuatu and from Portland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 rhodes 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 Grandmaster Flash to the funk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ornette Coleman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
The Gories,
Brothers Johnson,
The Leaves,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brass Construction,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ituana,
CMW,
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nico,
Soul II Soul,
Cybotron,
Animal Collective,
Slick Rick,
Lou Reed,
James White and The Blacks,
Country Teasers,
Cheater Slicks,
The J.B.'s,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Drexciya,
The Music Machine,
Flipper,
The Fall,
R.M.O.,
Scientists,
Chrome,
Sugar Minott,
Althea and Donna,
Erasure,
Easy Going,
Pantaleimon,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nirvana,
Jeff Mills,
Heaven 17,
Don Cherry,
Masters at Work,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fad Gadget,
Warren Ellis,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Fania All-Stars,
Toni Rubio,
Fluxion,
Con Funk Shun,
Nils Olav,
Thee Headcoats,
Crash Course in Science,
10cc,
Ornette Coleman,
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dead Boys,
Rapeman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.