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 Indonesia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Radio Birdman to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Q and Not U. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Technova,
Loose Ends,
Hardrive,
Young Marble Giants,
Cymande,
The Remains,
Jimmy McGriff,
The United States of America,
DNA,
Drexciya,
Los Fastidios,
Radio Birdman,
EPMD,
Gang of Four,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Blues Magoos,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Stereo Dub,
PIL,
Rod Modell,
Chris Corsano,
JFA,
Letta Mbulu,
Lungfish,
Hasil Adkins,
Alton Ellis,
Donny Hathaway,
Echospace,
The Busters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Kinks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Stooges,
The Alarm Clocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Nik Kershaw,
UT,
In Retrospect,
The Cramps,
Joe Finger,
Agent Orange,
Eve St. Jones,
Guru Guru,
Pulsallama,
DJ Style,
Heaven 17,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Offenders,
Cybotron,
The Mojo Men,
Symarip,
K-Klass,
Jacob Miller,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
FM Einheit,
the Association,
Radiohead,
Reagan Youth,
Tim Buckley,
Suicide,
Stiv Bators,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.