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 Turkmenistan and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Grandmaster Flash to the jazz 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Nik Kershaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Patti Smith,
Rites of Spring,
The Moleskins,
The Dirtbombs,
UT,
D'Angelo,
The Pretty Things,
Scion,
Hoover,
The Music Machine,
The Slits,
Swans,
Buzzcocks,
The Smiths,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maurizio,
cv313,
Vladislav Delay,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Shuggie Otis,
Section 25,
Model 500,
X-102,
Television,
Main Source,
Janne Schatter,
Kerrie Biddell,
Crime,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bluetip,
48th St. Collective,
Sex Pistols,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Golliwogs,
K-Klass,
Zero Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Parry Music,
The Durutti Column,
Oblivians,
Excepter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kaleidoscope,
Scrapy,
The Techniques,
Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Faraquet,
Drexciya,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gabor Szabo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sixth Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Hasil Adkins,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.