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 Liechtenstein and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bill Near to the grime 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 Yazoo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Eric Copeland,
Adolescents,
Radiohead,
Bad Manners,
Essential Logic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Mark Hollis,
The Litter,
Roger Hodgson,
The Move,
Eddi Front,
Fatback Band,
Warsaw,
Black Sheep,
Little Man,
Panda Bear,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Livin' Joy,
Boredoms,
D'Angelo,
Underground Resistance,
Terrestrial Tones,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brothers Johnson,
Aural Exciters,
Oblivians,
Kaleidoscope,
Schoolly D,
The Doors,
OOIOO,
Brick,
Sonic Youth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scratch Acid,
B.T. Express,
Liliput,
Blake Baxter,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minnie Riperton,
This Heat,
Johnny Clarke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lalann,
The Divine Comedy,
Hoover,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sound Behaviour,
Mo-Dettes,
The Leaves,
Outsiders,
Isaac Hayes,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Modern Lovers,
Skriet,
Yusef Lateef,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Circle Jerks,
Zapp,
Qualms,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Erykah Badu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.