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 East Timor and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
Derrick Morgan,
Kurtis Blow,
Ultra Naté,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minor Threat,
Sarah Menescal,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Ornette Coleman,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Mojo Men,
A Certain Ratio,
World's Most,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Outsiders,
The Electric Prunes,
Gichy Dan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nico,
Wire,
Camouflage,
X-101,
Morten Harket,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sound,
Parry Music,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Remains,
Japan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terry Callier,
Alphaville,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Dead C,
Adolescents,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blues Magoos,
Deakin,
Avey Tare,
Talk Talk,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Brick,
La Düsseldorf,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Vladislav Delay,
The Doors,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Make Up,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sonic Youth,
Howard Jones,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.