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 Belize and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
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 chamberlin 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 The Dave Clark Five to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spandau Ballet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Faust,
Country Teasers,
Pylon,
Q65,
Donny Hathaway,
the Swans,
Derrick Morgan,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sun City Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Ultimate Spinach,
T. Rex,
Prince Buster,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Index,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Derrick May,
Judy Mowatt,
Outsiders,
Saccharine Trust,
Tommy Roe,
the Bar-Kays,
Stockholm Monsters,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cure,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Modern Lovers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
James White and The Blacks,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bobby Byrd,
Shuggie Otis,
The Techniques,
Black Sheep,
The Busters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rotary Connection,
Mars,
Connie Case,
Yellowson,
Marvin Gaye,
Gastr Del Sol,
X-102,
R.M.O.,
Al Stewart,
Kevin Saunderson,
Juan Atkins,
Joyce Sims,
Ornette Coleman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Surgeon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Brick,
Cheater Slicks,
the Normal,
Tomorrow,
Negative Approach,
Matthew Halsall,
the Association,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.