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 Dominica and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Negative Approach to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monks,
The Standells,
Pantytec,
Yusef Lateef,
Quadrant,
Dark Day,
Skaos,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Görl,
The Detroit Cobras,
Trumans Water,
World's Most,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Marcia Griffiths,
Electric Prunes,
Groovy Waters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mad Mike,
Flash Fearless,
Parry Music,
The Beau Brummels,
Kerri Chandler,
Japan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The J.B.'s,
Eli Mardock,
Wally Richardson,
Barbara Tucker,
Tropical Tobacco,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tears for Fears,
Morten Harket,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jimmy McGriff,
Clear Light,
Aural Exciters,
Sam Rivers,
E-Dancer,
Deadbeat,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Buckinghams,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Arab on Radar,
Technova,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nico,
LL Cool J,
Essential Logic,
Nick Fraelich,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vainqueur,
Qualms,
Iggy Pop,
Isaac Hayes,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rapeman,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.