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 Papua New Guinea and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Duran Duran to the techno 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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
The Blackbyrds,
Bang On A Can,
Slick Rick,
The Leaves,
Rotary Connection,
Sun Ra,
Barrington Levy,
The Cowsills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Fugs,
Mars,
Mary Jane Girls,
10cc,
Sight & Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Sheep,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ultravox,
Avey Tare,
Darondo,
The Residents,
Judy Mowatt,
Oneida,
Kevin Saunderson,
New Age Steppers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cecil Taylor,
The Fall,
CMW,
Suicide,
Pantaleimon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slave,
Godley & Creme,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Michelle Simonal,
Kerri Chandler,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blake Baxter,
Eric Dolphy,
Hasil Adkins,
Bootsy Collins,
AZ,
FM Einheit,
Public Enemy,
Skaos,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Absolute Body Control,
Average White Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Delta 5,
Kurtis Blow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Angry Samoans,
The Techniques,
Be Bop Deluxe,
D'Angelo,
Black Pus,
Magma,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.