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 Algeria and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 Blossom Toes to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Selecter. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
The Monochrome Set,
Ten City,
Simply Red,
Banda Bassotti,
John Holt,
Barbara Tucker,
Agent Orange,
Ronnie Foster,
Vainqueur,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Normal,
Saccharine Trust,
Archie Shepp,
Oblivians,
Matthew Halsall,
Cal Tjader,
ABC,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lungfish,
Andrew Hill,
Roger Hodgson,
Can,
Scott Walker,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Patti Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Joyce Sims,
Lakeside,
Rites of Spring,
Funky Four + One,
Iggy Pop,
Black Flag,
Toni Rubio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Wyatt,
Fat Boys,
Derrick May,
Kevin Saunderson,
Camberwell Now,
Sonic Youth,
Altered Images,
Los Fastidios,
The Mojo Men,
Skaos,
Arcadia,
Bobby Sherman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Essential Logic,
Robert Görl,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tomorrow,
Dave Gahan,
The Saints,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barrington Levy,
Pulsallama,
Zero Boys,
B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express, B.T. Express.
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.