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 Korea North and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Donald Fagen 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 Judy Mowatt to the crunk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Bronski Beat,
Bush Tetras,
Donny Hathaway,
The Blackbyrds,
The Misunderstood,
Fatback Band,
The Evens,
Bill Wells,
Lakeside,
Bauhaus,
Quadrant,
K-Klass,
Grauzone,
Cluster,
Trumans Water,
Swans,
Main Source,
Lindisfarne,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Easy Going,
Isaac Hayes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television Personalities,
The Human League,
Minor Threat,
Guru Guru,
Malaria!,
Scion,
Pussy Galore,
Youth Brigade,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
MDC,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Aloha Tigers,
JFA,
the Sonics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Searchers,
Traffic Nightmare,
The United States of America,
Alison Limerick,
The Gap Band,
The Toasters,
The Litter,
Animal Collective,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Q and Not U,
Stereo Dub,
Flash Fearless,
Siglo XX,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Red Krayola,
X-Ray Spex,
B.T. Express,
Chris & Cosey,
Dual Sessions,
Carl Craig,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.