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 Tunisia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Ultimate Spinach to the dance 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ornette Coleman,
Heaven 17,
Bill Near,
The Happenings,
EPMD,
Jacob Miller,
Cameo,
The Fall,
Arcadia,
The Fugs,
Gang Starr,
Carl Craig,
Freddie Wadling,
The Kinks,
Pagans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Axelrod,
Idris Muhammad,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Soft Cell,
Black Flag,
The Names,
Organ,
Pantytec,
Gichy Dan,
Nirvana,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick Morgan,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Ponytail,
Subhumans,
The Motions,
June Days,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Selecter,
Leonard Cohen,
Traffic Nightmare,
Electric Prunes,
Laurel Aitken,
Talk Talk,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Moon,
Funkadelic,
The Cramps,
Amon Düül,
Lindisfarne,
Grauzone,
Bad Manners,
Kerri Chandler,
Sandy B,
Eli Mardock,
Pussy Galore,
Jacques Brel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.