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 Kyrgyzstan and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Second Layer to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
The Sonics,
K-Klass,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
Nico,
Eurythmics,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Stiv Bators,
Gong,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Delta 5,
The Litter,
kango's stein massive,
Ituana,
Lightning Bolt,
Crash Course in Science,
The Buckinghams,
Echospace,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
John Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Fela Kuti,
Deadbeat,
This Heat,
MC5,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Monolake,
Fad Gadget,
Goldenarms,
Scientists,
Bobby Sherman,
Agent Orange,
Matthew Halsall,
The Stooges,
Second Layer,
Pylon,
Minnie Riperton,
Lyres,
Amon Düül II,
Judy Mowatt,
Clear Light,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mark Hollis,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Babytalk,
Television Personalities,
Dawn Penn,
The Raincoats,
Gang Green,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erasure,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.