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 Vanuatu and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Eden Ahbez to the grunge 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 Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Eating Sloth,
Los Fastidios,
Scratch Acid,
Ken Boothe,
The Kinks,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Slave,
Au Pairs,
Jerry's Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jacob Miller,
Reagan Youth,
Sound Behaviour,
Isaac Hayes,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sonic Youth,
Banda Bassotti,
K-Klass,
Smog,
John Lydon,
Clear Light,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sex Pistols,
Flipper,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Urselle,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Warren Ellis,
Popol Vuh,
The Velvet Underground,
Matthew Halsall,
The Trojans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rekid,
Rites of Spring,
The Birthday Party,
Erykah Badu,
The Red Krayola,
Camberwell Now,
Bobby Womack,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alison Limerick,
The Moody Blues,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pussy Galore,
The Smoke,
Accadde A,
The Blues Magoos,
Pantaleimon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Blake Baxter,
The Moleskins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Nick Fraelich,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.