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 Ghana and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fat Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Black Pus,
Oblivians,
Frankie Knuckles,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Basic Channel,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fuzztones,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Raincoats,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lungfish,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Judy Mowatt,
Bootsy Collins,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June of 44,
Joensuu 1685,
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Juan Atkins,
Babytalk,
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New Age Steppers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Brick,
Nik Kershaw,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sandy B,
Agitation Free,
Echospace,
Faust,
The Associates,
The Monochrome Set,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James White and The Blacks,
Marmalade,
Q and Not U,
Pussy Galore,
X-Ray Spex,
The Slits,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hashim,
Franke,
Cybotron,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Moody Blues,
Deadbeat,
David Bowie,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mission of Burma,
Unwound, Unwound, Unwound, Unwound.
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.