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 Australia and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soft Cell to the electroclash 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Bill Wells,
Barry Ungar,
Dennis Brown,
Rotary Connection,
Lightning Bolt,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gladiators,
X-Ray Spex,
Young Marble Giants,
Q and Not U,
B.T. Express,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Max Romeo,
Michelle Simonal,
Anakelly,
Flipper,
Peter and Kerry,
The Moody Blues,
Jawbox,
Bootsy Collins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Toni Rubio,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Soft Cell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Parry Music,
the Bar-Kays,
Alison Limerick,
AZ,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Machine,
Youth Brigade,
Gong,
David Bowie,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mary Jane Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
Minutemen,
The Trojans,
Andrew Hill,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bobby Sherman,
Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Delon & Dalcan,
Radio Birdman,
Bill Near,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mo-Dettes,
Deakin,
Todd Terry,
Surgeon,
D'Angelo,
Archie Shepp,
Radiohead,
Black Sheep,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.