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 Georgia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the marimba 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 Ornette Coleman to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Soft Machine,
The Remains,
Slave,
The Gladiators,
ABBA,
Bobby Sherman,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Hill,
Underground Resistance,
Marshall Jefferson,
Josef K,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scratch Acid,
Jerry's Kids,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Country Teasers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Knickerbockers,
Jeff Mills,
Soul II Soul,
Radio Birdman,
Slick Rick,
Nik Kershaw,
Bush Tetras,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cheater Slicks,
John Foxx,
the Soft Cell,
Delta 5,
Organ,
Frankie Knuckles,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marvin Gaye,
The Kinks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joe Finger,
Malaria!,
Inner City,
The Wake,
Tommy Roe,
The Buckinghams,
The Martian,
Rotary Connection,
China Crisis,
Yusef Lateef,
Darondo,
The Raincoats,
The Move,
Fad Gadget,
John Cale,
Donald Byrd,
World's Most,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camberwell Now,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Alton Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Minnie Riperton,
A Certain Ratio,
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.