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 Senegal and from London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kaleidoscope to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
The Cramps,
Rhythm & Sound,
Procol Harum,
China Crisis,
Lou Christie,
Joey Negro,
London Community Gospel Choir,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Marine Girls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dark Day,
The Misunderstood,
ABBA,
Flipper,
Tommy Roe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Skatalites,
Excepter,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Animal Collective,
Ronnie Foster,
The Real Kids,
FM Einheit,
X-102,
Maurizio,
The Leaves,
The United States of America,
The Raincoats,
Smog,
Little Man,
A Certain Ratio,
Vainqueur,
Skaos,
The Golliwogs,
Sam Rivers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kas Product,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soft Cell,
Brothers Johnson,
Donny Hathaway,
Pole,
Gregory Isaacs,
UT,
Nils Olav,
Franke,
Monks,
Matthew Halsall,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Suburban Knight,
Roy Ayers,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Green,
Inner City,
The Gap Band,
Country Teasers,
Fat Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
Shuggie Otis,
JFA,
Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station, Graham Central Station.
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.