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 Tuvalu and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Popol Vuh to the grunge 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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.
All Crooked Eye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
New Age Steppers,
Jeff Lynne,
Pharoah Sanders,
Duran Duran,
Pierre Henry,
One Last Wish,
Erykah Badu,
Michelle Simonal,
Avey Tare,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott Heron,
Minnie Riperton,
Lalann,
UT,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
Kas Product,
Suicide,
Oblivians,
Yusef Lateef,
Brick,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fall,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
cv313,
The Buckinghams,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Bang On A Can,
Kenny Larkin,
Cymande,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Birthday Party,
Procol Harum,
Silicon Teens,
10cc,
Electric Prunes,
Danielle Patucci,
Junior Murvin,
Bad Manners,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Au Pairs,
Rakim,
Frankie Knuckles,
David McCallum,
Johnny Clarke,
Graham Central Station,
John Foxx,
Harmonia,
Loose Ends,
Drexciya,
MC5,
Joy Division,
Maleditus Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Pagans,
The Monochrome Set,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.