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 Iran and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the funk 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Todd Terry,
Little Man,
LL Cool J,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Half Japanese,
Gang Starr,
Sun Ra,
Fugazi,
The Human League,
Pulsallama,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lou Reed,
Audionom,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moss Icon,
Joey Negro,
Gichy Dan,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
F. McDonald,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sex Pistols,
Bob Dylan,
June Days,
ABC,
David Bowie,
X-101,
The Sisters of Mercy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Whodini,
the Association,
Eric Copeland,
Khruangbin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Prince Buster,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scott Walker,
Average White Band,
The Music Machine,
The Fortunes,
Gang Green,
Bad Manners,
Althea and Donna,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cymande,
Royal Trux,
the Sonics,
Scion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Josef K,
Suicide,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Amon Düül II,
Ponytail,
Fad Gadget,
Can,
The Grass Roots,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.