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 Australia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Janne Schatter to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Procol Harum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brand Nubian,
John Holt,
Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The United States of America,
Urselle,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
Fugazi,
Wolf Eyes,
Gabor Szabo,
Maurizio,
Eurythmics,
The Golliwogs,
Lyres,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Deakin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Beau Brummels,
A Certain Ratio,
Tim Buckley,
Jerry's Kids,
The Evens,
Can,
Section 25,
the Fania All-Stars,
Livin' Joy,
Half Japanese,
Reagan Youth,
Das Ding,
Grauzone,
Dark Day,
Moebius,
Bobby Byrd,
Absolute Body Control,
Marine Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Cheater Slicks,
KRS-One,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Basic Channel,
K-Klass,
Nation of Ulysses,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ohio Players,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sun City Girls,
Mantronix,
Bad Manners,
Sound Behaviour,
Faraquet,
AZ,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bob Dylan,
Arcadia,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Green,
MC5,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
R.M.O.,
Rapeman,
Outsiders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.