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 Denmark and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 China Crisis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Motorama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Nik Kershaw,
Connie Case,
Jacques Brel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alison Limerick,
The Fugs,
Darondo,
The Misunderstood,
Metal Thangz,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
X-Ray Spex,
Fear,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Audionom,
Camberwell Now,
Arthur Verocai,
Juan Atkins,
Kayak,
Brick,
Malaria!,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Albert Ayler,
Funky Four + One,
Sällskapet,
Q65,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Siglo XX,
Scion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Popol Vuh,
D'Angelo,
Harry Pussy,
The Gap Band,
The United States of America,
Deadbeat,
Hasil Adkins,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Susan Cadogan,
The Cramps,
the Normal,
Public Enemy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare,
Brand Nubian,
The Gories,
Gerry Rafferty,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Livin' Joy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mission of Burma,
Tommy Roe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
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.