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 Kuwait and from Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the rap 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
In Retrospect,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Soulsonic Force,
Roger Hodgson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Yellowson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wings,
Howard Jones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mars,
Youth Brigade,
Skarface,
Gil Scott Heron,
John Cale,
Intrusion,
Roxette,
Gang of Four,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Grauzone,
Pulsallama,
Aloha Tigers,
Cheater Slicks,
The Grass Roots,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Shadows of Knight,
Barbara Tucker,
Quantec,
Johnny Osbourne,
T. Rex,
The Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Brand Nubian,
The Angels of Light,
Eli Mardock,
Maurizio,
Morten Harket,
The Star Department,
The Stooges,
Janne Schatter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The J.B.'s,
Fluxion,
Au Pairs,
Pole,
Marc Almond,
One Last Wish,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Associates,
Juan Atkins,
Boz Scaggs,
Kurtis Blow,
The Count Five,
cv313,
The New Christs,
U.S. Maple,
OOIOO,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.