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 Oman and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb 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 Peter & Gordon to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Bar-Kays record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
The Searchers,
The Moleskins,
Deakin,
The New Christs,
Infiniti,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Funkadelic,
Country Teasers,
Fear,
Joey Negro,
Hashim,
The Dead C,
Fatback Band,
Amazonics,
Letta Mbulu,
The Slackers,
Ice-T,
Index,
Prince Buster,
Qualms,
The Human League,
The Offenders,
The Busters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lyres,
Procol Harum,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Skaos,
Pylon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Pierre Henry,
Howard Jones,
the Swans,
Groovy Waters,
The Toasters,
UT,
Ornette Coleman,
The Litter,
Warsaw,
Deadbeat,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
Ronan,
Newcleus,
James White and The Blacks,
Eric Dolphy,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Mr. Review,
Joe Smooth,
Roger Hodgson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Can,
JFA,
Negative Approach,
Theoretical Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Scratch Acid,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.