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 Germany and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
The Fugs,
Talk Talk,
Leonard Cohen,
The Offenders,
Quadrant,
Soul II Soul,
Gang of Four,
a-ha,
Lightning Bolt,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
ABC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Idris Muhammad,
James Chance & The Contortions,
T. Rex,
Negative Approach,
Warren Ellis,
Con Funk Shun,
The Standells,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dead C,
Dual Sessions,
The Seeds,
Lou Christie,
Funky Four + One,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronan,
The Velvet Underground,
Soulsonic Force,
The Move,
Alton Ellis,
Can,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
D'Angelo,
The Slackers,
Little Man,
Kenny Larkin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
F. McDonald,
Joe Smooth,
Barry Ungar,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amazonics,
Sarah Menescal,
Scrapy,
Fluxion,
Agent Orange,
The Gladiators,
Second Layer,
the Normal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vladislav Delay,
Mark Hollis,
The Residents,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Moss Icon,
Television Personalities,
Ken Boothe,
The Moleskins,
The Trojans,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.