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 Dominica and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Bobby Womack to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 It's A Beautiful Day. All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Buzzcocks,
Magazine,
Soul Sonic Force,
Boz Scaggs,
Junior Murvin,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bronski Beat,
Unrelated Segments,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
MDC,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wolf Eyes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Matthew Bourne,
The Techniques,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Juan Atkins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Human League,
Ornette Coleman,
Pantaleimon,
Slave,
Sonic Youth,
B.T. Express,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bob Dylan,
Rites of Spring,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABBA,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Sonics,
Guru Guru,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Beau Brummels,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Robert Wyatt,
Crooked Eye,
Crispy Ambulance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
A Certain Ratio,
Scientists,
Hashim,
The Count Five,
Mark Hollis,
Chrome,
Ultimate Spinach,
Toni Rubio,
Kerrie Biddell,
Stereo Dub,
Andrew Hill,
Joy Division,
Sexual Harrassment,
Harry Pussy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.