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 Belarus and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Cowsills to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Popol Vuh record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nas,
Fluxion,
Johnny Osbourne,
James White and The Blacks,
Brass Construction,
Wire,
Gang Starr,
Soft Machine,
Livin' Joy,
Iggy Pop,
Freddie Wadling,
The Martian,
the Fania All-Stars,
Maurizio,
Kevin Saunderson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Graham Central Station,
Tommy Roe,
Boogie Down Productions,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pere Ubu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soulsonic Force,
The Motions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Country Teasers,
Donny Hathaway,
Sällskapet,
The Monks,
The Red Krayola,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Victims,
Zero Boys,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fela Kuti,
Robert Hood,
Nik Kershaw,
Deadbeat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cowsills,
The Star Department,
Robert Wyatt,
Scratch Acid,
Swans,
Ten City,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
New Age Steppers,
Ronnie Foster,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Guru Guru,
Smog,
The Slackers,
Sun City Girls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.