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 Russia and from Manchester.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron 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 Amazonics to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Mission of Burma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minor Threat,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultravox,
Nas,
Niagra,
Franke,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hoover,
Surgeon,
The Velvet Underground,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Birthday Party,
Swans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eurythmics,
Icehouse,
the Slits,
Idris Muhammad,
Oneida,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eli Mardock,
Blancmange,
Liliput,
World's Most,
Smog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gladiators,
Soulsonic Force,
Rosa Yemen,
Brass Construction,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cameo,
Porter Ricks,
Robert Wyatt,
Harpers Bizarre,
the Soft Cell,
The Remains,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Roy Ayers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims,
the Normal,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Human League,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sugar Minott,
Lungfish,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
Sun City Girls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amon Düül II,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
Goldenarms,
Chris & Cosey,
Von Mondo,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.