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 Georgia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro 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 Scion to the electroclash 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 Little Man. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Foxx,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hoover,
The Pretty Things,
Easy Going,
The Real Kids,
The Modern Lovers,
The J.B.'s,
The Count Five,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Angry Samoans,
Spoonie Gee,
Nas,
Bill Near,
Roger Hodgson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dual Sessions,
Nils Olav,
OOIOO,
The Motions,
Sarah Menescal,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scrapy,
The Moody Blues,
Max Romeo,
X-101,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Clear Light,
Andrew Hill,
Wolf Eyes,
Radiohead,
Essential Logic,
David Axelrod,
Radio Birdman,
La Düsseldorf,
Gichy Dan,
Slick Rick,
U.S. Maple,
The Slits,
Make Up,
Brick,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Womack,
Avey Tare,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Five Americans,
Country Teasers,
Derrick May,
Fear,
the Human League,
Faraquet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joe Finger,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alison Limerick,
Camouflage,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.