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 Zimbabwe and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Connie Case to the punk 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Bronski Beat,
One Last Wish,
Al Stewart,
Cameo,
Black Flag,
Boz Scaggs,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Letta Mbulu,
EPMD,
These Immortal Souls,
Anakelly,
Grey Daturas,
Vladislav Delay,
Babytalk,
Skaos,
Susan Cadogan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Minnie Riperton,
The Martian,
Cybotron,
Eli Mardock,
Mission of Burma,
Ten City,
Amon Düül,
Gil Scott Heron,
Qualms,
Eric Copeland,
Quadrant,
Thompson Twins,
Lower 48,
Sun Ra,
Moebius,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ludus,
Ice-T,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ronan,
The United States of America,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Residents,
Erykah Badu,
Janne Schatter,
Yellowson,
Rakim,
Gastr Del Sol,
E-Dancer,
Black Pus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oneida,
Kevin Saunderson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Iggy Pop,
Kool Moe Dee,
Graham Central Station,
The Human League,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cowsills,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.