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 Armenia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 X-101 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Alphaville,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Amon Düül,
Magma,
Zapp,
Letta Mbulu,
Niagra,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Magazine,
The Count Five,
Stetsasonic,
Eli Mardock,
The Smoke,
Lyres,
The Star Department,
Matthew Bourne,
Surgeon,
Yusef Lateef,
Lungfish,
Youth Brigade,
Eddi Front,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
Funkadelic,
The Golliwogs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Toni Rubio,
Sandy B,
Crispian St. Peters,
Flash Fearless,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Section 25,
La Düsseldorf,
EPMD,
David McCallum,
Henry Cow,
Bill Near,
Guru Guru,
Y Pants,
Blake Baxter,
Pantytec,
The Gap Band,
Donald Byrd,
Wally Richardson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cure,
The Cramps,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Patti Smith,
The Invisible,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Robert Görl,
The Doobie Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.
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.