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 Namibia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Donald Fagen 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 Harpers Bizarre to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mandrill,
Delta 5,
Dave Gahan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Wolf Eyes,
John Foxx,
T. Rex,
Peter & Gordon,
The Standells,
Babytalk,
Q and Not U,
Todd Rundgren,
Soul II Soul,
Rapeman,
Amazonics,
Drexciya,
Moss Icon,
Donald Byrd,
cv313,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Intrusion,
ABC,
Soft Cell,
The Moleskins,
Thompson Twins,
The Searchers,
The Associates,
Arab on Radar,
The Blackbyrds,
Marc Almond,
Interpol,
The Cramps,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Loose Ends,
Essential Logic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Charles Mingus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Busters,
Qualms,
Joe Finger,
David McCallum,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Darondo,
Rekid,
Yusef Lateef,
Flash Fearless,
Dorothy Ashby,
Quadrant,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Swans,
The Sonics,
Lungfish,
Lalo Schifrin,
Grauzone,
Reagan Youth,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Hood,
Sam Rivers,
Clear Light,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.