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 Namibia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Stockholm.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joy Division,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dark Day,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Five Americans,
Marc Almond,
Marmalade,
The Smiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Blues Magoos,
Warren Ellis,
Youth Brigade,
Arthur Verocai,
Average White Band,
Silicon Teens,
The Modern Lovers,
Funkadelic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Moleskins,
Drexciya,
Pere Ubu,
Rosa Yemen,
Pagans,
Saccharine Trust,
Cymande,
Junior Murvin,
Duran Duran,
8 Eyed Spy,
Popol Vuh,
Patti Smith,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sister Nancy,
In Retrospect,
Funky Four + One,
Judy Mowatt,
The Misunderstood,
Q and Not U,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gories,
Barclay James Harvest,
Procol Harum,
The Gladiators,
Hoover,
June of 44,
Godley & Creme,
FM Einheit,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bootsy Collins,
Amazonics,
Eli Mardock,
Morten Harket,
Moebius,
Qualms,
Mark Hollis,
Mantronix,
Deadbeat,
Moby Grape,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.