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 Serbia and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Brothers Johnson to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Stetsasonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Liliput,
Tommy Roe,
The Monochrome Set,
Average White Band,
Soft Machine,
Oblivians,
Reuben Wilson,
Schoolly D,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agitation Free,
Minny Pops,
H. Thieme,
Spoonie Gee,
The Happenings,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bobby Womack,
Q and Not U,
Sun City Girls,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Basic Channel,
Roxy Music,
Lou Christie,
Howard Jones,
Brothers Johnson,
Hasil Adkins,
Steve Hackett,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sällskapet,
Bob Dylan,
Robert Hood,
Avey Tare,
The Misunderstood,
Joe Finger,
Terry Callier,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wolf Eyes,
Bootsy Collins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jerry's Kids,
Tom Boy,
Jandek,
LL Cool J,
The Blues Magoos,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tubeway Army,
Sam Rivers,
The Birthday Party,
Marine Girls,
Easy Going,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Funky Four + One,
Ten City,
Barry Ungar,
The Offenders,
Swell Maps,
Surgeon,
The Walker Brothers,
Ice-T,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.