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 Sudan 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Angels of Light to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 DJ Style. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
The Sound,
Negative Approach,
Basic Channel,
48th St. Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lightning Bolt,
Wire,
Echospace,
Cecil Taylor,
Amon Düül,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eric Copeland,
Young Marble Giants,
The Slackers,
The Cramps,
8 Eyed Spy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marine Girls,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
The Litter,
Neu!,
Ohio Players,
Brand Nubian,
Eli Mardock,
The Tremeloes,
The Neon Judgement,
MC5,
Aswad,
Flipper,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Susan Cadogan,
The Toasters,
CMW,
KRS-One,
kango's stein massive,
Vladislav Delay,
Second Layer,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roy Ayers,
The Pop Group,
Derrick May,
Boredoms,
Eric Dolphy,
New Order,
The Golliwogs,
Goldenarms,
Todd Terry,
The Divine Comedy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Searchers,
Television,
Reuben Wilson,
Lucky Dragons,
Sex Pistols,
Y Pants,
Fat Boys,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.