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 Japan and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 rhodes 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 Ituana to the grunge 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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Jeru the Damaja,
Brand Nubian,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi,
Depeche Mode,
Camouflage,
Moebius,
Pylon,
Arcadia,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
One Last Wish,
The Moleskins,
Danielle Patucci,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Japan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric Copeland,
Godley & Creme,
Television Personalities,
La Düsseldorf,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Christie,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Martian,
The Standells,
Mark Hollis,
JFA,
Fatback Band,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mantronix,
Arthur Verocai,
Tears for Fears,
Underground Resistance,
Pussy Galore,
The Evens,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Rekid,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sight & Sound,
Minutemen,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scion,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mars,
Arab on Radar,
Au Pairs,
The Litter,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
Slick Rick,
Blancmange,
Siglo XX,
Adolescents,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.