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 Ethiopia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 The Skatalites to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Neu!,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lalann,
Glambeats Corp.,
Rod Modell,
Marshall Jefferson,
Panda Bear,
Con Funk Shun,
Jeff Mills,
Mars,
Malaria!,
The Stooges,
Underground Resistance,
The Pretty Things,
Chrome,
Procol Harum,
Tres Demented,
Ornette Coleman,
The Motions,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Symarip,
Roger Hodgson,
Lakeside,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Buckinghams,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
Scan 7,
Ossler,
AZ,
Mad Mike,
the Soft Cell,
Lou Reed,
Electric Prunes,
Aural Exciters,
MC5,
Index,
Terry Callier,
Dennis Brown,
Gang of Four,
David McCallum,
John Lydon,
PIL,
The Slackers,
Mo-Dettes,
Au Pairs,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
cv313,
Simply Red,
The Trojans,
Eurythmics,
Aloha Tigers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Wyatt,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.