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 Papua New Guinea and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum 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 Jerry's Kids to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Clear Light record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Mark Hollis,
Leonard Cohen,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Slave,
Fela Kuti,
Barrington Levy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joe Finger,
The Cure,
Boz Scaggs,
Bauhaus,
Marc Almond,
Lungfish,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Doobie Brothers,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Swell Maps,
The Searchers,
Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Boogie Down Productions,
Alphaville,
Alton Ellis,
Shuggie Otis,
Gong,
The Slackers,
Sarah Menescal,
Reagan Youth,
Ronan,
Derrick May,
The Buckinghams,
The Blues Magoos,
The Invisible,
Black Pus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Simply Red,
Faraquet,
The Doors,
The Tremeloes,
Yazoo,
Parry Music,
Aaron Thompson,
Section 25,
Dual Sessions,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
Average White Band,
Goldenarms,
the Human League,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Barracudas,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.