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 Uruguay and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Lakeside,
AZ,
Pet Shop Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
Easy Going,
Lebanon Hanover,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Hill,
kango's stein massive,
Todd Terry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fuzztones,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Gichy Dan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Janne Schatter,
Delon & Dalcan,
Technova,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jacob Miller,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Marvin Gaye,
Dave Gahan,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dirtbombs,
Fugazi,
Ten City,
Nas,
Funky Four + One,
Cybotron,
The Fugs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Young Rascals,
K-Klass,
The Velvet Underground,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pylon,
Peter and Kerry,
Slave,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crime,
Danielle Patucci,
Neu!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Donald Byrd,
Connie Case,
Roger Hodgson,
The Music Machine,
Rufus Thomas,
The Pretty Things,
Japan,
Accadde A,
The Selecter,
Tres Demented,
Fluxion,
One Last Wish,
Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims, Joyce Sims.
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.