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 Korea South and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 David Bowie to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Erasure,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
In Retrospect,
Josef K,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thee Headcoats,
Gil Scott Heron,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Knickerbockers,
Curtis Mayfield,
Prince Buster,
Silicon Teens,
Echospace,
The Five Americans,
Schoolly D,
Minnie Riperton,
Wings,
Nas,
The Sound,
Y Pants,
Judy Mowatt,
Scientists,
Brick,
Whodini,
Jesper Dahlback,
Juan Atkins,
John Holt,
Soft Machine,
Barrington Levy,
OOIOO,
Joe Finger,
Ohio Players,
The Kinks,
Hashim,
Rapeman,
Fatback Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Neu!,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun Ra,
Max Romeo,
Joey Negro,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mantronix,
Aaron Thompson,
The Birthday Party,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Selecter,
Robert Hood,
Accadde A,
Severed Heads,
Bobby Womack,
The Gladiators,
Deakin,
Sight & Sound,
The Move,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gang of Four,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.