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 Thailand and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Sheep record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Neu!,
Little Man,
DJ Sneak,
Wings,
Lungfish,
ABC,
Von Mondo,
Country Teasers,
Barbara Tucker,
Sixth Finger,
The Techniques,
Ponytail,
The Blackbyrds,
The Doors,
Rakim,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mummies,
Lalann,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
JFA,
Trumans Water,
Eric Dolphy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Suburban Knight,
La Düsseldorf,
Prince Buster,
Royal Trux,
Dual Sessions,
John Holt,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harmonia,
The Birthday Party,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cramps,
Gang of Four,
The Count Five,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Massinfluence,
The Searchers,
Ultravox,
Junior Murvin,
Piero Umiliani,
Pantytec,
Loose Ends,
Faraquet,
Fugazi,
ABBA,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
MDC,
David Axelrod,
Adolescents,
Buzzcocks,
Slave,
Outsiders,
The Gap Band,
Groovy Waters,
The Leaves,
Oblivians,
T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex, T. Rex.
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.