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 Morocco and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 JFA to the jazz 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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mantronix,
Maleditus Sound,
The Alarm Clocks,
Icehouse,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sonny Sharrock,
Todd Terry,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Crooked Eye,
Glenn Branca,
Scion,
Steve Hackett,
David Axelrod,
The Smoke,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joe Smooth,
The Moody Blues,
Bang On A Can,
Khruangbin,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gap Band,
Siglo XX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scan 7,
Roy Ayers,
China Crisis,
F. McDonald,
Drexciya,
Bill Wells,
Excepter,
Scientists,
Lungfish,
the Soft Cell,
Black Flag,
Moby Grape,
Alton Ellis,
Ronan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lindisfarne,
Mad Mike,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liliput,
Iggy Pop,
Average White Band,
Kerri Chandler,
Brick,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cosmic Jokers,
AZ,
Arthur Verocai,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jawbox,
The Litter,
The Monochrome Set,
Kaleidoscope,
Ultravox,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Shoche,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.