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 Gambia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Lou Reed 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 Procol Harum to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Almond record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a JFA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Joey Negro,
Lalo Schifrin,
Shoche,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Soulsonic Force,
Fugazi,
Black Flag,
Jawbox,
Fluxion,
The Leaves,
Hasil Adkins,
Au Pairs,
Marvin Gaye,
The Misunderstood,
Idris Muhammad,
Spoonie Gee,
Delta 5,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Flipper,
Jandek,
Pylon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Soft Machine,
The Divine Comedy,
John Foxx,
Brass Construction,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eurythmics,
The Sonics,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed,
Sugar Minott,
The Music Machine,
Al Stewart,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lower 48,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang Starr,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nation of Ulysses,
Amon Düül,
The Trojans,
Quadrant,
The Invisible,
The Happenings,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kool Moe Dee,
Make Up,
Circle Jerks,
Goldenarms,
The Blues Magoos,
The Moleskins,
Chrome,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Peter & Gordon,
Rapeman,
The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C, The Dead C.
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.