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 Ghana and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 organ 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 Arcadia to the dance 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blues Magoos,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Victims,
The Vogues,
Gerry Rafferty,
Khruangbin,
Janne Schatter,
Adolescents,
OOIOO,
The Slits,
Rufus Thomas,
The Searchers,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
Aaron Thompson,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
Yaz,
Brick,
cv313,
Drive Like Jehu,
Young Marble Giants,
Monolake,
Vladislav Delay,
Sällskapet,
Rekid,
Morten Harket,
Nas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aural Exciters,
Althea and Donna,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ossler,
Moebius,
Radiopuhelimet,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Steve Hackett,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Tubeway Army,
LL Cool J,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Mummies,
Glambeats Corp.,
Infiniti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
ABBA,
New Order,
Newcleus,
Massinfluence,
Japan,
Altered Images,
Junior Murvin,
Minor Threat,
the Slits,
Bill Near,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Normal,
Pylon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Siglo XX,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.