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 Canada and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 ABBA to the jazz 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
F. McDonald,
Funky Four + One,
Stetsasonic,
The Raincoats,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rosa Yemen,
Procol Harum,
Model 500,
Swell Maps,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
The Remains,
Ohio Players,
Sun City Girls,
David Axelrod,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Angry Samoans,
Harry Pussy,
Man Parrish,
Chrome,
The Golliwogs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Todd Terry,
Neil Young,
The Associates,
Warsaw,
UT,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
Guru Guru,
Cybotron,
Bluetip,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bronski Beat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Don Cherry,
Derrick May,
The Neon Judgement,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Sheep,
Maleditus Sound,
Fat Boys,
Barry Ungar,
Dual Sessions,
Barbara Tucker,
Talk Talk,
Silicon Teens,
Soft Cell,
Fatback Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Sun Ra,
Panda Bear,
Gang of Four,
the Human League,
Trumans Water,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.