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 Tonga and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Adolescents to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
ABC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Brothers Johnson,
Robert Wyatt,
Sound Behaviour,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Alice Coltrane,
Simply Red,
Traffic Nightmare,
Ponytail,
Motorama,
Absolute Body Control,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Altered Images,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Smoke,
Joe Smooth,
The Vogues,
Aloha Tigers,
AZ,
Aural Exciters,
Country Teasers,
Laurel Aitken,
Siglo XX,
Slick Rick,
Sixth Finger,
Lower 48,
Schoolly D,
The Selecter,
Jandek,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dark Day,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
Average White Band,
The Kinks,
China Crisis,
June Days,
Chris & Cosey,
Black Moon,
The Monochrome Set,
Porter Ricks,
The Pop Group,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Cale,
Brick,
Rapeman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Qualms,
Public Enemy,
Stereo Dub,
The Standells,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
F. McDonald,
David McCallum,
The Slits,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cluster,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.