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 Guinea and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 sitar 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 Funky Four + One to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Nico 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Vogues,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Busters,
Masters at Work,
Supertramp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ornette Coleman,
The Velvet Underground,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Q65,
Agent Orange,
Agitation Free,
Magma,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
Mo-Dettes,
Royal Trux,
Q and Not U,
Ash Ra Tempel,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Porter Ricks,
the Normal,
Ultra Naté,
The Wake,
Carl Craig,
Nick Fraelich,
The Real Kids,
Mission of Burma,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brand Nubian,
10cc,
Quadrant,
Marmalade,
Lebanon Hanover,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bang On A Can,
Gregory Isaacs,
Thompson Twins,
Robert Wyatt,
The Monochrome Set,
Rod Modell,
Depeche Mode,
Howard Jones,
Intrusion,
Radiopuhelimet,
June Days,
Graham Central Station,
Von Mondo,
Easy Going,
Public Image Ltd.,
Alton Ellis,
Matthew Halsall,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neil Young,
The Fuzztones,
Slave,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
FM Einheit,
Moss Icon,
The United States of America,
The Angels of Light,
The Techniques,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.