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 Sudan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cal Tjader to the techno 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Von Mondo,
Silicon Teens,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barrington Levy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joensuu 1685,
Henry Cow,
Simply Red,
Adolescents,
Sandy B,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joe Smooth,
Qualms,
Soulsonic Force,
Newcleus,
The Trojans,
Magazine,
Erasure,
Black Flag,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bush Tetras,
Joy Division,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sexual Harrassment,
Charles Mingus,
Jacques Brel,
Television Personalities,
Steve Hackett,
Sight & Sound,
The J.B.'s,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Kinks,
Inner City,
the Germs,
The Fugs,
Accadde A,
Nils Olav,
John Cale,
Shuggie Otis,
Faust,
Marvin Gaye,
Model 500,
Metal Thangz,
Ultravox,
The Knickerbockers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Durutti Column,
Arthur Verocai,
Crash Course in Science,
Scratch Acid,
Negative Approach,
Minny Pops,
Juan Atkins,
Severed Heads,
Soft Cell,
Mission of Burma,
China Crisis,
Kas Product,
Gang Gang Dance,
Wings,
Archie Shepp,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.