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 Italy and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum 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 Unrelated Segments to the crunk 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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funkadelic 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fat Boys,
EPMD,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Popol Vuh,
Nico,
the Soft Cell,
Y Pants,
Sandy B,
Mark Hollis,
Tommy Roe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Slave,
Clear Light,
One Last Wish,
Lee Hazlewood,
Con Funk Shun,
Mad Mike,
Nirvana,
Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Royal Trux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Sun City Girls,
Goldenarms,
Das Ding,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ultravox,
Funky Four + One,
Sex Pistols,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Model 500,
Soul II Soul,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang Gang Dance,
Aural Exciters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Maleditus Sound,
Delta 5,
The Pop Group,
Joe Finger,
Isaac Hayes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Copeland,
John Cale,
Aswad,
Cal Tjader,
Kaleidoscope,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bill Near,
Sonny Sharrock,
48th St. Collective,
Bobby Sherman,
Scrapy,
Harmonia,
Terry Callier,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.