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 United Kingdom and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 rock 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Hood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
The Golliwogs,
Joyce Sims,
Wally Richardson,
Sparks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aaron Thompson,
Massinfluence,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Echospace,
These Immortal Souls,
Hashim,
Simply Red,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Moon,
Stereo Dub,
Fatback Band,
Aswad,
The Victims,
Black Bananas,
CMW,
Accadde A,
The Five Americans,
Idris Muhammad,
Letta Mbulu,
Little Man,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Outsiders,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
Moss Icon,
Aural Exciters,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Dolphy,
New York Dolls,
The Cowsills,
James White and The Blacks,
John Cale,
Average White Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
T.S.O.L.,
Excepter,
Marmalade,
Hoover,
The Busters,
Half Japanese,
Spandau Ballet,
The Monochrome Set,
Graham Central Station,
The Count Five,
The Evens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Roger Hodgson,
Reagan Youth,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.