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 Mongolia and from Lagos.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Judy Mowatt 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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faraquet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Dual Sessions,
The United States of America,
John Cale,
Von Mondo,
Erykah Badu,
Pussy Galore,
Young Marble Giants,
Subhumans,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Barracudas,
Cybotron,
The Angels of Light,
One Last Wish,
The Buckinghams,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eve St. Jones,
Sugar Minott,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker,
La Düsseldorf,
Graham Central Station,
Slick Rick,
8 Eyed Spy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Technova,
Guru Guru,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Susan Cadogan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gabor Szabo,
Fat Boys,
The Pop Group,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dawn Penn,
Deadbeat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Theoretical Girls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reuben Wilson,
The Skatalites,
Malaria!,
Laurel Aitken,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ituana,
The Golliwogs,
Model 500,
The Busters,
DNA,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pantytec,
D'Angelo,
The Cramps,
Schoolly D,
Carl Craig,
The Monks,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.