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 Togo and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Connie Case to the grime 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Desert Stars,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
Todd Rundgren,
The Pretty Things,
Drexciya,
Kaleidoscope,
The Modern Lovers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chrome,
Crooked Eye,
The Last Poets,
Rufus Thomas,
Camouflage,
Lakeside,
The Smoke,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marc Almond,
Ituana,
Wasted Youth,
Quantec,
Ice-T,
B.T. Express,
Inner City,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Neon Judgement,
Kenny Larkin,
Janne Schatter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Skarface,
Jawbox,
Hardrive,
The J.B.'s,
Bootsy Collins,
Television Personalities,
The Leaves,
R.M.O.,
The Standells,
Pere Ubu,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eden Ahbez,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delon & Dalcan,
Maleditus Sound,
Ponytail,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Black Moon,
Roxette,
Bobby Hutcherson,
CMW,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.