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 Mali and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Eurythmics to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Seeds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ohio Players,
CMW,
DNA,
Absolute Body Control,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jeff Lynne,
Section 25,
Stetsasonic,
Amon Düül,
David McCallum,
Eve St. Jones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eurythmics,
Patti Smith,
Drexciya,
The Divine Comedy,
Slick Rick,
The Grass Roots,
Sixth Finger,
Rekid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Gladiators,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Stereo Dub,
Joe Smooth,
The Fire Engines,
Steve Hackett,
Ultravox,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Index,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
Kayak,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sight & Sound,
The Searchers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
T.S.O.L.,
Jeff Mills,
The Associates,
Roxy Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
Tears for Fears,
Pagans,
Radiopuhelimet,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Desert Stars,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scratch Acid,
Aural Exciters,
Yaz,
Japan,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.