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 Armenia and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Television Personalities to the crunk 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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Cecil Taylor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
The Real Kids,
Flipper,
The Gun Club,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Beau Brummels,
Bauhaus,
Rotary Connection,
Don Cherry,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rod Modell,
Anakelly,
Patti Smith,
Main Source,
Absolute Body Control,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Moby Grape,
Michelle Simonal,
Nik Kershaw,
Avey Tare,
The Barracudas,
Eli Mardock,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy Collins,
Adolescents,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
L. Decosne,
the Germs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Iggy Pop,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
B.T. Express,
Talk Talk,
The Litter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Crime,
10cc,
Yazoo,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Youth Brigade,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fluxion,
Bobby Byrd,
Boz Scaggs,
These Immortal Souls,
Donald Byrd,
Moss Icon,
Chris & Cosey,
Nico,
Rhythm & Sound,
Qualms,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mantronix,
CMW,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Zeros,
Y Pants,
Wasted Youth,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.