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 Shanghai.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Curtis Mayfield to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Vainqueur,
Newcleus,
The Trojans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blake Baxter,
These Immortal Souls,
Ice-T,
Sight & Sound,
Organ,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Basic Channel,
Hasil Adkins,
Johnny Clarke,
Suburban Knight,
The Moleskins,
Swans,
Guru Guru,
Saccharine Trust,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Shuggie Otis,
Charles Mingus,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Blackbyrds,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Residents,
The Offenders,
The Flesh Eaters,
Khruangbin,
H. Thieme,
Albert Ayler,
The Grass Roots,
The Skatalites,
Adolescents,
Connie Case,
Alphaville,
The Slackers,
The Fortunes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Moody Blues,
Swell Maps,
Monks,
Radiohead,
Deakin,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Misunderstood,
The Cramps,
Throbbing Gristle,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Warren Ellis,
Isaac Hayes,
Laurel Aitken,
The Move,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terrestrial Tones,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.