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 Turkmenistan and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Niagra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Ronnie Foster,
The Durutti Column,
The Residents,
Alison Limerick,
Bobby Byrd,
Scrapy,
Nick Fraelich,
Swell Maps,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
Severed Heads,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
La Düsseldorf,
The Seeds,
The Doors,
Skriet,
James White and The Blacks,
Lindisfarne,
Goldenarms,
Animal Collective,
Henry Cow,
Au Pairs,
Television Personalities,
Black Sheep,
Lightning Bolt,
Brand Nubian,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Kurtis Blow,
Mark Hollis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Todd Rundgren,
Heaven 17,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Rakim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Flag,
Bill Near,
the Germs,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Motorama,
Junior Murvin,
Anakelly,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Yazoo,
The Trojans,
The Motions,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronan,
Lou Christie,
Rotary Connection,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.