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 Korea North and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Aural Exciters to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Basic Channel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Ludus,
Rotary Connection,
Ultimate Spinach,
Easy Going,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Freddie Wadling,
Barrington Levy,
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
Fatback Band,
Slave,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Cheater Slicks,
Rosa Yemen,
The Monks,
This Heat,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Anakelly,
The Residents,
Wasted Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra,
Sexual Harrassment,
Eli Mardock,
Rufus Thomas,
The Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Jacques Brel,
Hashim,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Monochrome Set,
Shuggie Otis,
Soulsonic Force,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marc Almond,
Moss Icon,
The Move,
Wings,
Deepchord,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Interpol,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yazoo,
L. Decosne,
Ronan,
Blake Baxter,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eurythmics,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Stiv Bators,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Toni Rubio,
Donald Byrd,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.