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 Belize and from Stockholm.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Cal Tjader to the jazz 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suburban Knight,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Swans,
The Evens,
The Star Department,
The Divine Comedy,
The Cure,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jawbox,
Reagan Youth,
Howard Jones,
The Pop Group,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q65,
Fat Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rekid,
Lalann,
Lungfish,
Tim Buckley,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Depeche Mode,
Charles Mingus,
Groovy Waters,
Warsaw,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Smiths,
Susan Cadogan,
Scratch Acid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Aural Exciters,
Reuben Wilson,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ohio Players,
The Wake,
Khruangbin,
Man Eating Sloth,
Moebius,
The Litter,
The Toasters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Joe Smooth,
Iggy Pop,
Simply Red,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lindisfarne,
Marshall Jefferson,
Basic Channel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Mad Mike,
Al Stewart,
The Raincoats,
Bang On A Can,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Freddie Wadling,
Joensuu 1685,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.