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 United States and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Reuben Wilson to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Royal Trux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Josef K,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Flash Fearless,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Piero Umiliani,
the Slits,
Lower 48,
The Evens,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Steve Hackett,
Jawbox,
Groovy Waters,
Bauhaus,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
New Age Steppers,
Johnny Clarke,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Tears for Fears,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Procol Harum,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Victims,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Iggy Pop,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mars,
Andrew Hill,
Soul II Soul,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Raincoats,
Aswad,
Livin' Joy,
Quando Quango,
Aaron Thompson,
Davy DMX,
Joe Smooth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Kas Product,
The Velvet Underground,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
Shoche,
Marine Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Joe Finger,
Underground Resistance,
The Remains,
Spoonie Gee,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Stiv Bators,
Sarah Menescal,
Camberwell Now,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Minutemen,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.