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 Armenia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ 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 Reuben Wilson to the rock 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yusef Lateef,
Fela Kuti,
John Foxx,
Anthony Braxton,
Kas Product,
Cheater Slicks,
The Neon Judgement,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Model 500,
The Leaves,
Danielle Patucci,
Matthew Bourne,
Eric Copeland,
Stiv Bators,
New York Dolls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Patti Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
The Martian,
Lucky Dragons,
The Five Americans,
The Cramps,
Matthew Halsall,
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Kaleidoscope,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Schoolly D,
T. Rex,
Flash Fearless,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Laurel Aitken,
Moby Grape,
One Last Wish,
Al Stewart,
The Misunderstood,
June of 44,
Aural Exciters,
The Raincoats,
Skarface,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-102,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Chris & Cosey,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Index,
Scott Walker,
Rotary Connection,
Stereo Dub,
Little Man,
Connie Case,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
Janne Schatter,
KRS-One,
Andrew Hill,
Letta Mbulu,
The Moody Blues,
Groovy Waters,
Blossom Toes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.