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 Georgia and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Franke to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy 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?
Lalann,
Average White Band,
Crime,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pulsallama,
The Associates,
Camouflage,
The Evens,
Roger Hodgson,
Joe Smooth,
Mr. Review,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Connie Case,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Modern Lovers,
The Zeros,
Sight & Sound,
Half Japanese,
Lou Reed,
Bad Manners,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fluxion,
Los Fastidios,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-101,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scion,
Joe Finger,
Magazine,
Skriet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rakim,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker,
The Toasters,
Can,
Deepchord,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pagans,
Gabor Szabo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Public Enemy,
Echospace,
Porter Ricks,
Lightning Bolt,
Kenny Larkin,
Whodini,
The Selecter,
Con Funk Shun,
Ken Boothe,
Peter and Kerry,
Black Flag,
The Count Five,
Spoonie Gee,
Outsiders,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Techniques,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.