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 South Africa and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 organ 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 Derrick Morgan to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Bill Near,
The Human League,
Porter Ricks,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Man Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
Matthew Halsall,
Stereo Dub,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tomorrow,
Jerry's Kids,
David Bowie,
The Vogues,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
OOIOO,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lyres,
Negative Approach,
PIL,
Inner City,
Yusef Lateef,
Blake Baxter,
The Pretty Things,
Fela Kuti,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Barry Ungar,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dual Sessions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Alphaville,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
Delta 5,
Godley & Creme,
Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Nirvana,
Nico,
FM Einheit,
Kaleidoscope,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kayak,
Mandrill,
Byron Stingily,
John Cale,
Soul Sonic Force,
Harmonia,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Basic Channel,
The Last Poets,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.