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 Kenya and from Glasgow.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hashim,
T. Rex,
Jerry's Kids,
Freddie Wadling,
Joe Smooth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Half Japanese,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eden Ahbez,
Q and Not U,
The Index,
Wings,
Average White Band,
the Association,
New Order,
Metal Thangz,
Bobby Sherman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bang On A Can,
Siglo XX,
Stiv Bators,
The Knickerbockers,
Nirvana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Erasure,
EPMD,
The Black Dice,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Litter,
Joensuu 1685,
Bad Manners,
Tommy Roe,
Banda Bassotti,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Invisible,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ituana,
Slick Rick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sam Rivers,
Alison Limerick,
Matthew Bourne,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
A Certain Ratio,
Glenn Branca,
Kayak,
The Trojans,
June Days,
Colin Newman,
Audionom,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Seeds,
Max Romeo,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kas Product,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.