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 Swaziland and from Hong Kong.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes 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 Camberwell Now to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Isaac Hayes,
Section 25,
Newcleus,
Albert Ayler,
Rufus Thomas,
The Moody Blues,
Pere Ubu,
Kevin Saunderson,
MDC,
Soul II Soul,
Kaleidoscope,
Suburban Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
The Gories,
Maurizio,
Quantec,
Brand Nubian,
Sällskapet,
Skarface,
Howard Jones,
K-Klass,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Toni Rubio,
Yaz,
Infiniti,
Peter & Gordon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moss Icon,
Eden Ahbez,
Depeche Mode,
Young Marble Giants,
U.S. Maple,
The Gladiators,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Gang Green,
Gong,
Ronnie Foster,
The Kinks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barry Ungar,
The Cramps,
Half Japanese,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Invisible,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Thompson Twins,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Selecter,
Saccharine Trust,
Agent Orange,
Loose Ends,
Nico,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.