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 Paraguay and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
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 guitar 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 June Days to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Ronnie Foster,
Underground Resistance,
Jimmy McGriff,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pharoah Sanders,
Inner City,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sight & Sound,
Lebanon Hanover,
ABC,
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joensuu 1685,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Soft Cell,
cv313,
Essential Logic,
X-Ray Spex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Technova,
The Moleskins,
Slick Rick,
The Velvet Underground,
UT,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Babytalk,
Radiohead,
Derrick May,
Lungfish,
Scion,
Sound Behaviour,
Patti Smith,
Be Bop Deluxe,
PIL,
Accadde A,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lower 48,
The Associates,
Brick,
Pantaleimon,
The Smoke,
KRS-One,
Model 500,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Fugazi,
Lakeside,
The Dead C,
Robert Görl,
Scan 7,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Five Americans,
Bad Manners,
Gang of Four,
FM Einheit,
Schoolly D,
Khruangbin,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.