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 Turkmenistan and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Ituana to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Public Enemy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arab on Radar,
The United States of America,
John Holt,
Aural Exciters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mandrill,
Simply Red,
Spoonie Gee,
Marcia Griffiths,
Juan Atkins,
Robert Hood,
Robert Görl,
MDC,
Spandau Ballet,
Royal Trux,
Sandy B,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare,
Babytalk,
Warren Ellis,
Sun City Girls,
Marshall Jefferson,
Yaz,
U.S. Maple,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Metal Thangz,
Pharoah Sanders,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Doors,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rufus Thomas,
New York Dolls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
David Axelrod,
Big Daddy Kane,
Black Pus,
Donny Hathaway,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alphaville,
The Doobie Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Basic Channel,
Deadbeat,
Organ,
The Martian,
ABC,
Maleditus Sound,
Kenny Larkin,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
Blancmange,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
La Düsseldorf,
Intrusion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.