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 Barbados and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Peter and Kerry to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Loose Ends,
Leonard Cohen,
Monks,
Accadde A,
The United States of America,
Ice-T,
Robert Hood,
DJ Style,
Inner City,
The Dead C,
Lindisfarne,
Youth Brigade,
Anakelly,
Pantytec,
Althea and Donna,
The Cure,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Reagan Youth,
The Wake,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bauhaus,
The Trojans,
Altered Images,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Procol Harum,
Mad Mike,
Quantec,
Yellowson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lalann,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Shuggie Otis,
Chrome,
Drexciya,
The Saints,
Dawn Penn,
The Detroit Cobras,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jacob Miller,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
Joensuu 1685,
Tom Boy,
The Cowsills,
The Five Americans,
This Heat,
Harmonia,
Dark Day,
Icehouse,
Panda Bear,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bang On A Can,
Little Man,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fugazi,
Black Sheep,
Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim, Eric B and Rakim.
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.