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 Bahamas and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Stiv Bators to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Easy Going,
Cal Tjader,
Japan,
The Neon Judgement,
Trumans Water,
Simply Red,
Eve St. Jones,
The Doobie Brothers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Quando Quango,
Davy DMX,
Amon Düül,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Normal,
the Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Kas Product,
EPMD,
Man Eating Sloth,
Thompson Twins,
The Monks,
Gregory Isaacs,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang of Four,
Angry Samoans,
Ludus,
The Modern Lovers,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Rundgren,
Monks,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Skatalites,
Girls At Our Best!,
Jimmy McGriff,
John Cale,
Archie Shepp,
Spandau Ballet,
Warren Ellis,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
David Axelrod,
Agitation Free,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Isaac Hayes,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gap Band,
X-102,
Bang On A Can,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Derrick May,
Juan Atkins,
Royal Trux,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Massinfluence,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Q and Not U,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grey Daturas,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.