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 Nepal and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Smiths to the disco 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Subhumans,
Mark Hollis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Grass Roots,
Prince Buster,
The Cure,
Aaron Thompson,
Spoonie Gee,
Henry Cow,
Barry Ungar,
Suburban Knight,
Lou Reed,
World's Most,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masters at Work,
Eric B and Rakim,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ronan,
Altered Images,
Jeru the Damaja,
Organ,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wire,
Scrapy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vladislav Delay,
The Music Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Donald Byrd,
Erasure,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Christie,
H. Thieme,
Quantec,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moss Icon,
Reagan Youth,
the Germs,
Ice-T,
Adolescents,
Minnie Riperton,
This Heat,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Archie Shepp,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Sonics,
Fugazi,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Martian,
Slave,
Franke,
Amon Düül II,
Fatback Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Don Cherry,
The Last Poets,
Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.
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.